Cell phone technology of choice for blue-collar workers

Shanghai (CNS) -- In contrast to white-collar workers who spend the majority of their working hours staring at a computer, seventy percent of blue collar workers use their cell phone to surf online and understand the world beyond their daily experience, according to a survey released in Shanghai on May 16.

The job website Daguu conducted the survey among 22,380 migrant workers across the country, of whom 13,926 were males and 8,454 females with an average age of approximately 26 years.

Thirty-six percent of the interviewees report spending more than five hours on the internet via cell phone every day. In Shanghai alone, 19 percent of interviewees job hunt for more than three hours a day this way.

Why are the blue-collar group big fans of mobile internet services? Clearly it is a question of access, the probe indicates this group has little chance to use other media.

Fully 60 percent of the interviewees report that they have no time or chance to use computer; 27 percent use one everyday but for an average time of only one to two hours. Merely five percent of blue collar workers use a computer for five hours or more a day.