Minutes spent on the phone, on a typical day

you work 24/7???

Women (but probably age-dependent).

With all the texting/chatting they *still* yak and yak and yak.

Even as a long time IRC junkie .. I find some stuff just gets discussed better with voice.

I can say the same about meetings. Sometimes stuff can be solved using all this great collaboration software we now have, however sometimes you just need to get everyone in the same room at the same time with an old fashioned white board.

Could be a limitation of technology or the people involved.. probably a bit of both

The poll says nothing about voice. "Spent on the phone" would, to me, indicate any time you use a phone, whether it's for talking, playing a game, sending pictures of yourself in ill-fitting underwear, or listening to music.

Anyhow, there's a missing option: I don't have a phone, you insensitive clod!
Getting rid of the cell phone was the second best decision I ever made in my life. The freedom of not being pestered more than makes up for inconveniences like having to use a watch and a laptop. The freedom of being unreachable is awesome.

Oh, you mean my pocket internet thingy?

So... it's like Skype? But a device, an entire device? Spooky.

Or, as James Gleick's reports in his 2011 book The Information:

    In a lecture at Cambridge, the physicist James Clerk Maxwell offered
a scientific description of the telephone conversation: “The speaker talks
to the transmitter at one end of the line, and at the other end of the line the
listener puts his ear to the receiver, and hears what the speaker said. The
process in its two extreme states is so exactly similar to the old-fashioned
method of speaking and hearing that no preparatory practice is required on
the part of either operator.” He, too, had noticed its ease of use.

I answered "More than 120" because I thought it meant "how much time are you spending with your phone"...

I would shriek with joy if my help desk job involved only 15-120 minutes per day on the phone.

I think I just spoke with you, dude!

From this I deduce you have a female wife.

Save your breath. Trying to convince a woman that precision in speech is a blessing is like trying to convince a fish that something wet is, you know, that thing where.... Well, maybe not a fish. A bear! Yeah. Like trying to convince a bear that... um... honey is, uh, bad? No, wait. An eagle! but what does an eagle really like?
Hmmm. Does the woman really like long speeches? Maybe that analogy is all wrong. Maybe it's that one with the hammer and nails. How does that go? Give a man a hammer. No, that's a fishing pole.
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That milk sounds good. Can you get some for me? Oh, and a pack of cupcakes, but only if they have chocolate ones.
Or orange. Orange! I used to love the orange ones. I'd peel off the frosting in one sheet and eat it and then suck out the whipped cream....
Was that really whipped cream? I think it was something else. it was still good.
Hey! That's it!
Trying to convince a woman that precision in speech is a blessing is like trying to find out what is inside a cupcake.
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Nope, still not right. Hold on, I'll think of it.
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Where'd my ADD meds go?

CPDLC FTW!

Ha. I think women believe we'll be insulted if they just come out and ask us to do something. Like we'll be thinking "All you called me for was to ask me to get milk?!?! Don't you even want me to know how your day was????"

... is wit

I'm not sure one should choose to base ones interactions with a life partner on practices from the work environment.

This could lead to bad outcomes in a variety of ways:

a) Your suggestions in the bedroom get you punitive actions from HR
b) Your suggestion about who should make dinner is met with an employment equity action from Legal
c) Your desire to watch NASCAR is veto'd by IT

etc.

I'll never lament a difference in the sexes: I don't believe in pointless efforts being worthwhile and more to the point, if it weren't for those differences, women wouldn't be half as interesting to men (and vice versa).

The phrase "on the phone" has a long lasting meaning you ass fucking midget.

I'm going to let you in on a secret: voice communication can be done in person, no need for an electronic device - in fact, I dare say that can be an even healthier form of "real" communication!

It's not an average. On a typical day, I don't even touch my phone. So, none.

It depends on what you mean by "average". You could say "mean" or "median" to be more precise. I'd think that on the median day, I don't use my phone at all. On the arithmetic mean, I'd guess about 5 minutes per day.

You're on the wrong plan.

Except for a small amount of electricity, the time you spend on the phone doesn't really cost them anything. Pretty much everything in telecom is sunk costs. So it doesn't really make much of a difference to them if you, individually, use your phone a little or a lot.

Do you sit on work when your "on the job"?

I text when I need to make sure that someone has gotten my emails, funnily enough.

Almost all studies on the topic indicate that a headset does not really lessen the risk involved with talking on the phone while driving. The problem is not that one of your hands is occupied with holding a phone, but that your attention is occupied with having a conversation. A blue tooth headset does not help with that.