If you use your phone while working, you don't have your full attention on what you're doing, which can cause you to make costly mistakes. Cell phone use at work not only causes a lot of distractions, but it also costs the company money. “Many people receive 10 to 20 or more text messages a day. My kids probably receive and send more than 50 texts a day. Let's look at some numbers. To be conservative, let's say an employee spends only 10 minutes a day sending and receiving messages. I suspect many business owners would place these numbers closer to 30 minutes per day. If it's just 10 minutes a day, you might think it's not that bad. However, the cumulative calculations for a year get a little scary. Multiplying 10 minutes by 260 working days gives you 2,600 minutes per year. Divide the total by 60 minutes and the result is 43.3 hours per worker. At $12 an hour plus other expenses, that's $575 in overpaid wages and $1,726 in lost productivity – a total of $2,301 per worker. Lost wages for five workers in one year amount to $2,875.” (Hildebrand) If companies developed a cell phone policy that ensured that employees do not use their phones during working hours, this would ensure that their work was more efficient and would also save the company