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“ALWAYS ON” — DEALING WITH A CONSTANT AVAILABILITY SELF-STEERING COMPETENCE Especially the necessity for self-steering competence in this context could be seen in the following process flow diagram. It shows the array of microdecisions to be made permanently as described by Mazmanian et al.’® These decisions are infinitesimal and made hardly knowingly, many of them are made automatically. Recently a study of about 60,000 German smart phone users showed that by average they checked their smart phones 88 times per day for new messages or time of day and subsequently unlocked them 53 times for using an app." That means the average user being awake uses his device and interrupts every other activity (or tries to combine it with driving, going staircases etc.) about every 20 minutes. This shows that there are plenty of these micro-decisions to be made every day, and this permanent decision making occupies our brains as well as it is distracting, even if it is perceived in a positive way by the acting individual feeling self-efficient. 15 Melissa Mazmanian — Joanne Yates — Wanda Orlikowski, Ubiquitous email: Individual experiences and organisational consequences of Blackberry use, Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, St. Louis MO, The Academy of Management, 2006, adopted by Walpuski, Always on. 1° Alexander Markowetz, Digitaler Burnout: Warum unsere permanente Smartphone-Nutzung gefährlich ist, München, Droemer, 2015. «129 +
