Can You Handle It? Bosses Ban Cellphones From Meetings

Employers limit cellphone use to regain attentiveness. Workers use watches and laptops instead.

Two thousand six hundred seventeen times a day. That is how often the average person taps, pokes, pinches or swipes their personal phone.

It all adds up to about 2 hours and 25 minutes, according to a study by mobile app research firm Dscout Inc. And a good chunk of that time comes during work hours.

Jason Brown had had enough of it. Two...