{"id":105051,"date":"2018-02-13T10:27:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T10:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105051"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:40:13","slug":"researchers-find-anxiety-lurking-in-your-inbox-to-no-ones-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/researchers-find-anxiety-lurking-in-your-inbox-to-no-ones-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find anxiety lurking in your inbox, to no one\u2019s surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is <\/span>checking email late<\/b> into the night <\/span>making you tense<\/b>, affecting your relationships, and generally <\/span>screwing with your life<\/b>? <\/span><\/p>\n

Then you may well be suffering from <\/span>technostress<\/span><\/a>, a threat to our well being that is finally <\/span>being taken seriously by researchers<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The condition isn\u2019t helped by managers who expect that we will <\/span>always be ready to reply<\/b> to late-night or weekend messages. <\/span><\/p>\n

Some bosses have realized that <\/span>far worse than existential despair<\/b> and <\/span>suicidal depression<\/b>, this also <\/span>makes us drones less productive<\/b>, and so they\u2019ve started <\/span>banning out of hours emails<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

French workers <\/b>have even won the <\/span>right to disconnect<\/span><\/a>, allowing them to insist on <\/span>email-free evenings and weekends<\/b>. And a lot of us are asking when the rest of the world will follow suit. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Getty Images\/ PhotoAlto Is checking email late into the night making you tense, affecting your relationships, and generally screwing with your life? Then you may well be suffering from technostress, a threat to our well being that is finally being taken seriously by researchers. The condition isn\u2019t helped by managers who expect that we … Continue reading “Researchers find anxiety lurking in your inbox, to no one\u2019s surprise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1028,1036],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-health","tag-productivity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328302,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105051\/revisions\/328302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105051"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105051"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105051"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}