A recent survey by RIM found an average BlackBerry user converts one hour of downtime to productive time each day and ups their overall team efficiency by 38 percent.

All of ZDNet.co.uk's sister site silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel agreed that BlackBerry devices and smartphones have improved their productivity but warned it can have a negative impact on work/life balance without judicious use of the off-switch.

Kevin Fitzpatrick, chief information officer at Sodexho UK, said: "Improvement in productivity has been huge — the ability to respond immediately has been a real bonus for the company. Work/life balance swings dramatically to the company side of the scales."

Alan Shrimpton, IT director at Avon and Somerset Constabulary, said: "I can now use downtime — waiting to collect daughters, train journeys — to continue to read and action emails, which means I don't have a huge queue waiting for me when I'm next in the office. It has, however, extended my......

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