Many people post their vacation plans on electronic calendars that colleagues can view online, and they leave word about how they can be reached in a pinch.
Not only that, when people disappear from formal or informal meetings via their electronic devices, their colleagues interpret it this way: "You are less important to me than my cellphone/P.D.A./laptop/latest gizmo".
"The average young American now spends practically every minute — except for the time in school – using a smartphone, computer, television or electronic device," my colleague Tamar Lewin reported in 2010, from a Kaiser Family Foundation study.
In the study, which was published Monday in The Archives of Internal Medicine, Dr. Sequist and his colleagues examined electronic medical records of 6,814 patients with diabetes.
Mr Stimpson is expected to allege that some of his colleagues used electronic messaging tools in the same way he did.
They think about how to use the insurance money to maybe install electronic health records with colleagues, or provide easier phone and e-mail access, or offer expanded hours.
An agent might, for example, go around and check the electronic agendas of several colleagues, work out the most opportune moment to schedule a meeting, block off that time in each diary, and then inform all concerned of its decision.
They join with their colleagues to install electronic health records, and look for ways to provide easier phone and e-mail access, or offer expanded hours.
Last week, during a vote on one of the many iterations of the bill, some of the lawmakers in favor of it slid their hands over to the desks of absent colleagues to press electronic voting buttons for them.
