Workers may choose to unplug for a portion of a day and thus create the feeling of a vacation by simply separating themselves from the demands of constant digital communications.
She unplugs the phone and fax machine and plants a phony fax sheet clarifying that her partner would not arrive until that night or early the following morning.
With virtualization, a system administrator could combine several physical systems into virtual machines on one single, powerful system, thereby unplugging the original hardware and reducing power and cooling consumption.