THE GUARDIAN: Unanswered emails were the bane of my life - until I spent a month in search of inbox nirvana

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“This ‘always on’ culture of emails is killing people,” says Professor Sir Cary Cooper, an organisational psychologist at Manchester Business School. “It leads to worry, anxiety, depression, and physical ill-health. There’s a whole field now called technostress, and the evidence is that unconstrained emails, where there is no guidance by employers, are damaging for people’s health.”

Period8 Feb 2018

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  • TitleUnanswered emails were the bane of my life - until I spent a month in search of inbox nirvana
    Media name/outletThe Guardian
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date8/02/18
    Description“This ‘always on’ culture of emails is killing people,” says Professor Sir Cary Cooper, an organisational psychologist at Manchester Business School. “It leads to worry, anxiety, depression, and physical ill-health. There’s a whole field now called technostress, and the evidence is that unconstrained emails, where there is no guidance by employers, are damaging for people’s health.”
    URLhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/08/unanswered-emails-inbox-nirvana-bane-of-life
    PersonsCary Cooper

Keywords

  • email
  • stress
  • workplace culture