When managers at Camarata Masonry Systems in Houston recently had suspicions that phones were contributing to safety issues and a lack of productivity on jobsites, one of the company’s superintendents decided to test out the theory. He gathered cellphones from employees as they reported to the jobsite one day and held on to them until lunchtime, Camarata Safety Director Robert Brown told Construction Dive.
When he handed the phones back to workers, he asked two employees to share the number of notifications they had received, including emails, texts, phone messages and social media alerts. One worker reported he had 60 and the other had more than 100.
