How much online is healthy?

DIGITAL Permanent accessibility and being online all the time are preoccupying society: according to a representative study by online agency xeit GmbH, around 50% of respondents cannot remember the last time they consciously switched off their cell phone. Experts find this alarming and are responding with the Digital Detox Conference.Parents worry about their cell phone-addicted children and bosses fear stressed employees. HR people go even further and want to guarantee a healthy work-life balance for their employees with offline times after work in order to avoid stress and concentration problems or even burn-outs.Does being permanently online make you ill?Others are already talking about a disease called nomophobia (no mobile phone phobia) and etiquette advocates are talking about impolite nomophobes at the table. These include all those who are "afraid of no cell phone" and therefore need it permanently within sight and sound. this development is causing uncertainty in teachers' rooms, at parents' advice centers and among HR managers and is raising questions: How much online is healthy? How much offline do we need?First Digital Detox Conference in SwitzerlandUnder the motto "Slow down, not start-up", two young entrepreneurs from Zurich are organizing the first Digital Detox Conference in Switzerland. The conference program is designed to give participants an opportunity to take a break from being online forever. The organizers want to inspire reflection and show how many options online junkies have today to survive a digital detox completely unscathed. the conference will take place on 19 November 2015 at 1.30 p.m. in the Papiersaal in Zurich. Speakers include Jeroen van Rooijen, founder of the advertising portal vanroijen.ch and style expert for the NZZ and NZZ am Sonntag. He set himself the goal of "disappearing" digitally for two months and then blogged about it. Kevin Kyburz will also be speaking. He is a co-founder of #offlineDay.