As more people turn their mattresses into a work space, companies offer work-in-bed products. One mattress boasts built-in outlets.

 

Is clacking away on a laptop while sprawling on bed sheets more comfortable and productive than hunching over a desk?

Researchers who study work habits say a new generation reared on mobile devices is increasingly accustomed to using them while propped against pillows, lying down or in a fetal curl.

 

Half of 1,000 workers polled this year by Good Technology, a Sunnyvale, Calif., mobile-security software company, said they read or respond to work emails from bed. A study of 329 British workers found nearly 1 in 5 employees spends two to 10 hours a week working from bed, according to the 2009 poll by Credant Technologies, a London-based data-security company.

 

Via The Learning Factor