32%

WORK-LIFE BLENDING

41%

32%believe work-life blending makes them less stressed

MERGING TECHNOLOGY

use personal smartphones for both work and personal uses

of people have more than 10

personal apps on their work issued

smartphones

30%

use their work smartphone for both

THE RISE OF HIRED HACKERS

almost three in ten European workers are usingtheir personal devices in the office for workpurposes despite not knowing, or caring, whether they are actually allowed to

29%

MILLENNIALS (AGE 18 - 34) MOST LIKELY TO USE TECHNOLOGY IN THIS WAY

37% 33% 46%

37% 30% 30%

UK France Italy

Spain Germany Netherlands/Belgium

“Samsung’s study suggests that just as people solve problems and improve their personal lives by ‘life-hacking’, many workers are using technology for the same ends. Millennials, who’ve grown up with mobile technology, are natural drivers of this trend, using their digital native intelligence to make IT work for them. If they haven’t already, European organisations need to design their work and security policies, and technology strategy, with this employee behaviour in mind” Dr Dimitrios Tsivrikos, Consumer and Business Psychologist at University College London

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38%believe work-life blending helps them get more work done in the same amount or time

of European workers either don’t know if their company has a mobile security policy, or actively ignore it if they do

One third of respondents believe blending helps them manage their personal tasks better, and the same proportion say it makes them less stressed

more than a quarter of European workers have used their own technology to get around company imposed obstacles to doing work

55%

32%26%