Put away the iPhone. Close the laptop.
Turns out all those life advice gurus banging on about work/life balance were on to something, because checking your email outside of the office is genuinely making us all massively stressed out.
A new study from the University of Hamburg has concluded once and for all that checking emails outside of office hours elevates a person’s stress levels.
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Psychologists asked 132 people to answer a series of questions over an eight day period – four days when they were expected to be available for work, and four when they weren’t.
During the survey period, half of the participants had saliva samples measured for cortisol – the stress hormone.
As you’d expect, the results showed that during times when a… Read the full story