Study states constant work emails can harm your relationship
| Aug 14, 2018, 17:07 IST
A recent research conducted by William Becker, Ph.D. showed that constant emails from your workplace can start to drive a wedge between you and your significant other. A lot of countries including France and Italy have laws that protect workers' rights by ensuring that they don't have to respond to work emails post work hours. “The reason you get into a close relationship is to have someone you can really be present with and really be mindful of,” Becker says. “If that person can’t talk to you for more than ten minutes without checking their phone or looking at their email, that starts to degrade that sense of being present and mindful.”
“One of the things that’s good about coming home to your family is that you get out of your work mindset and into your real-world mindset,” he explains. “You can be caring and engage with people and not be so tense, but this literature suggests that every time you check you email, your mindset switches back to work.” But as can be seen, these methods have been charaded around as 'work ethics' for so long that employees are forces to engage. Anyway, it is only a matter of time before more countries employ the no-responding after work hours rule. Stay tuned for more updates.
“One of the things that’s good about coming home to your family is that you get out of your work mindset and into your real-world mindset,” he explains. “You can be caring and engage with people and not be so tense, but this literature suggests that every time you check you email, your mindset switches back to work.” But as can be seen, these methods have been charaded around as 'work ethics' for so long that employees are forces to engage. Anyway, it is only a matter of time before more countries employ the no-responding after work hours rule. Stay tuned for more updates.