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Researchers find anxiety lurking in your inbox, to no one’s surprise

Researchers find anxiety lurking in your inbox, to no one’s surprise
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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’t helped by managers who expect that we will always be ready to reply to late-night or weekend messages.

Some bosses have realized that far worse than existential despair and suicidal depression, this also makes us drones less productive, and so they’ve started banning out of hours emails.

French workers have even won the right to disconnect, allowing them to insist on email-free evenings and weekends. And a lot of us are asking when the rest of the world will follow suit.

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