And thus the cycle spins: teammates, superiors and subordinates continue to make more requests, and conscientious employees accept these marginal increases in demands on their time, while their expectations of each other (and themselves) rise accordingly.24 This is a nice example of technological determinism at work. None of these teammates, superiors, and subordinates like the culture of constant connection that this cycle produces. None of them ever suggested it, or made a conscious decision to adopt it.
