What happened to eye contact ?

babaHR

Yesterday I took a walk around to take questions about flu shots and was mortified that several of the employees never took their eyes off their computer screens when I spoke with them. 

This is an office, not an operating room or airport control tower. Employees can take a second to look at someone when talking to them.

I also noticed in our company meetings, employees are staring down into their phones texting instead of looking at the speaker.

Is eye contact passe? Are simple good manners gone, too?

SFbay

I am reading a book on hynobirthing.  The author argues we induce self-hypnosis often in our everyday lives. One of the examples she used was getting so involved in a work project that we get in a hypnotic state.  Maybe this explains your experience. They were in a hypnotic state because of their work ;-)

gi_janearng

This happens everywhere.  I doubt it will be going away anytime soon.

martharon

This happens everywhere, being employees they cant express their opinion or feeling very easily , so some may take this as an opportunity to express how they feel which out putting themself in a negative position. and i dont think it can be eradicated that easily.