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British Report Details the Stress of Email Communication
WaltonNews writes "British researchers have found that pressures from handling emails throughout the work day cause stress and frustration with workers. Researchers from a pair of collaborating universities have found that heavy email communication causes anxiety, with some workers thinking they checked their email as often as once every fifteen minutes. The reality was much worse. From the article: 'When researchers fitted monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing e-mails up to 40 times an hour. About 33 per cent said they felt stressed by the volume of e-mails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 per cent said they felt "driven" when they checked messages because of the pressure to respond. Just 38 per cent of workers were relaxed enough to wait a day or longer before replying.'"
When researchers fitted monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing e-mails up to 40 times an hour
Well, duh! I'm guessing that workers without monitors fitted to their computers not only rarely checked their e-mail, but could not do much of anything with their computers.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
When researchers fitted monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing e-mails up to 40 times an hour.
Workers using computers without monitors checked their e-mail far less often.