Vodafone recommends "more discreet" communication methods in public

by Darren Murph, posted Apr 30th 2008 at 2:32AM

Although it should be painfully obvious, we can't deny that chatting about sensitive information in public takes place practically everywhere. To that end, a new study commissioned by Vodafone UK found that over 70-percent of all workers "talk business on their mobile phones in public, with one-in-five talking about business-critical subjects such as sales leads." Worse still, 15-percent admitted to "openly discussing confidential new products or services whilst traveling," while 26-percent admitted that they have actually followed up on a lead in which they received via listening in to another's public call. Not surprisingly, the company recommends that individuals utilize more discreet methods of communicating in public, suggesting texting and emailing in particular. Of course, it's a good bit more difficult to tell a story through those two methods, but it's a lot better than having your most promising client snatched out from under you, yeah?

[Via textually, image courtesy of Miloh]

Filed under: Messaging, Vodafone, Studies

Tags: business, conversation, Culture, data, private, research, secret, study, vodafone

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PEZ @ Apr 30th 2008 6:52AM

The percentages mean nothing. Was this one of those Family Fued questions where they asked 100 people?

These statistics are irrelevant. What is relevant is, people are annoying on the phone - talking to it like its a sandwich, with gum falling out of their mouths.

Time for a cell jammer.

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