British Report Details the Stress of Email Communication 147
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.'"
Personally (Score:3, Funny)
Frog with no legs becomes deaf. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Personally (Score:1, Funny)
Brits worry too much (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If I don't do it then, I forget (Score:2, Funny)
This item is actually on my TODO list. And that TODO list is also on a larger meta-TODO list. And that meta-list is stored in a binary format whose reader's code looks like
Bah! (Score:3, Funny)
I've got 4 mod points left and everytime I log onto
Re:wait a day? unheard of! (Score:3, Funny)
The monitors are the important part (Score:5, Funny)
Workers using computers without monitors checked their e-mail far less often.
Re:Brits worry too much (Score:2, Funny)