As Newstrom observes, people can now go home and turn on their computers and continue working at night, but their working hours are not correspondingly reduced. E-mail, which was originally supposed to make communication more efficient and raise productivity, is now a channel for being inundated by junk mail.
紐思中觀察，現在人們晚上在家開機工作的時間延長了，上班時數卻沒有相對減少；原本有助於提高溝通效率和生產力的電子郵件，現在被滿天飛舞的垃圾郵件弄得動彈不得，心煩意亂。