Because of technology, do companies expect executives to be available around the clock?
According to an article in the December 2006 issue of the Harvard Business Review, 45 percent of high-earning managers in large multinational corporations have jobs that demand more than 60 hours of work a week, large amounts of travel, unpredictable work flows, round-the-clock availability and heavy responsibility. They believe that 10 percent of these managers work more than 80 hours a week. Globalization has increased the need for corporate officers to travel and communicate, compelling executives to be available outside normal working hours in their time zone. Advances in communication technology have made the middle-ofthe-night international conference call or e-mail both cheap and easy. How should you handle an urgent e-mail during a meeting? Alert your meeting host that you may have to respond to an urgent e-mail on your mobile device during the meeting. Be as unobtrusive as possible. Quietly excuse yourself from the meeting. What is the best way to conduct a meeting so that peo
