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World Service,3 mins

Are holidays becoming a time to fully switch off?

World Business Report

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When the Blackberry mobile email device began to catch on in the 2000's, it seemed like holidays would never be the same again, as people could so easily take their work along with them on vacation. But our commentator, Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times, has noticed a trend in the opposite direction, where people these days seem to be bragging that they did not check their email whilst away. (Picture: A palm tree on a desert island. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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