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52%

52% -- share of young adults using mobile device during meetings for young adults (age 22-30) (2013)

2013  · HTC

52% of young adult (age 22-30) cell phone users admit to freely texting, scrolling through social media, emailing, and surfing the internet while in a meeting or during a conversation.

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52%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2013
Entity
young adults (age 22-30)
Geography
North America
B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
HTC Primary Tier C
https://www.seekinghr.com/those-cell-phone-faux-pas-and-how-to-avoid-them/ ↗
Confidence: 23/100 Vintage: 2013 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
Those Cell Phone Faux Pas… and How to Avoid Them
Those Cell Phone Faux Pas… and How to Avoid Them Shannon Hernandez Fun fact – the world’s first commercial mobile phone cost ~$4,000 when it first came out in 1993 or ~$9,000 in today’s dollars, adjusting for inflation!! Flash forward almost 40 years, and the relatively low cost of mobile devices me…
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Industrymarketing RegionNorth America RoleAll marketers Channelmulti-channel
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young adults (age 22-30): 52% share of young adults using mobile device during meetings. Source: HTC (2013). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/young-adults-mobile-use-meetings-52pct
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