Despite three in four Americans believing that they maintain a healthy tech-life balance, a majority of Americans cannot endure more than two hours without checking their electronic devices. This infographic by Crucial.com outlines the differences between what Americans believe to be a healthy tech-life balance and the reality.

1. Despite three in four Americans believing that they maintain a healthy tech-life balance, a majority of
Americans cannot endure more than two hours without checking their electronic devices.
Additionally, one in five would sooner go to dinner with an ex significant other than separate from technology for a month.
WOMEN
ARE SKEPTICAL OF TECH’S ROLE IN SOCIETY
TO A BETTER TECH-LIFE BALANCE
SIX WAYS
MARY LOVERDE
1. Establish personal tech-life balance policies.Take a look at what you value and set some
policies to help you stay connected to what’s most important.
2. Create new habits. Just like our other cravings we can change our habits to lessen the urge
to get a hit.
3. Maximize your device’s efficiency with adequate memory. Waiting for downloads is a
frustrating time-waster and can be avoided by simply upgrading with more memory.
4. Pick sleep over technology. That last 30 minutes at night of Instagram, e-mail, or LinkedIn
cannot compete with the benefit of a half hour more sleep each night.
5. Look UP. Seriously, every once and a while just look up and see what is going on in the
REAL world that is right in front of you.
6. Stop taking yourself so seriously. We need to understand that when we let go of some of our
technology, other ideas will come into clearer focus.
• Research findings are based on a survey fielded in the US between October 31 and November 4, 2014 which asked 1,000 adults aged 18-65 about their use
of technology and its impact on their personal and professional lives. For additional information about the survey, Crucial, or computer memory upgrades visit
Crucial.com.
• Life balance expert, Mary LoVerde, author of Stop Screaming at the Microwave and I Used to Have a Handle on Life But It Broke. http://www.maryloverde.com
MILLENNIALS
CONSUME THE MOST TECH BUT WANT TO DISCONNECT
MEN
GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO STAY CONNECTED
54% said tech helps keep their families
connected throughout the day
62% of women think technology will
make people lose the art of verbal
conversation in the long term
25% schedule “disconnected time” or
“downtime” and shut devices off
39% of women think people will have
worse posture from looking down at
their phones
34% of men said tech keeps their
families together
12% of men have lied about the amount
of time they spent on their mobile device
36% of men said laptops/ mobile
devices have a positive impact on family
84% of men admitted to having checked
a mobile device while driving, in a movie
theater, at a funeral or during a child’s
play
86% of millennials have a laptop or a
smartphone
More than a third said tech has been
the cause of an argument with a
significant other
36% said tech keeps their families
closer together
31% said they wish they could go back
to a time where people were not
constantly connected
IT IS EASY FOR US TO GET SWEPT UP INTO THE 24/7
FEAR OF MISSING OUT SYNDROME. HERE ARE
SIX WAYS TO HELP YOU ACHIEVE A BETTER
TECH-LIFE BALANCE.