4 evidence reviews
Check the research
Popular claims about phones, attention and policy, checked against the primary studies behind them rather than the summary that usually circulates. Where the evidence is mixed, these say so instead of rounding it into a confident answer — see how we research for the sourcing standard behind that.
Do Workplace Phone Bans Actually Work?checked The evidence is genuinely mixed: the one real workplace field experiment found bans raise effort but not output, the one meeting-perception study found a written ban barely beats having no policy, and the largest evidence base, from schools, disagrees with itself.Do School Phone Bans Actually Work?checked The best US evidence found a real test-score gain and a racially uneven suspension spike from one district's ban. The best UK evidence found no benefit to wellbeing, grades or behaviour at all. Both are honest findings — here's what each one actually measured.Does the Right to Disconnect Actually Work?checked Most "right to disconnect" laws require your employer to negotiate a policy, not to leave you alone — and the one country that has studied its own law found 97% of employees saw no observable change. The court case everyone cites as proof of enforcement, read directly, turns out not to be about the right to disconnect at all.Phone Addiction Statistics: What the Research Actually Showschecked The numbers you see quoted online are often wrong, out of date, or misread. Here are the figures we can actually stand behind, with links to every source.