Checking work emails after hours is bad for your emotional state
Choosing not to shut off from work when you get home will do you more harm than good, a new study has revealed.
Many of us find ourselves constantly checking our work emails after hours. Researchers from Colorado State, Virginia Tech, and Lehigh University have found that this kind of behavior has a negative overall effect on employees' emotional states, refinery29 reported.
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The research also found that this could lead to “burnout” and impact work-family balance. This is not the first study that has revealed the negative effect of checking work emails from home.
Another one done in France even led to the country banning the sending or receiving of work emails after hours. “All the studies show there is far more work-related stress today than there used to be, and that the stress is constant. Employees physically leave the office, but they do not leave their work. They remain attached by a kind of electronic leash— like a dog. The texts, the messages, the emails — they colonize the life of the individual to the point where he or she eventually breaks down,” Benoit Hamon of the French National Assembly told the BBC.