Stop Typing And Start Talking
By 11 o’clock in the morning, your inbox is groaning with 150 unread e-mails.
Most of it’s a surreal mish-mash of unwanted information: a sales pitch for Viagra; a ticking-off from the boss; a request from the kids to bring home fish and chips for dinner; and countless others sent for no reason at all other than that it’s now so easy to send useless information at the touch of a button.
It comes as no surprise that a study carried out by researchers from the University of Glasgow and University of Paisley has revealed that 34% of workers feel stressed by the number of e-mails they receive each day and the fact they feel obliged to answer them ASAP.
More than half of those surveyed said they checked for new messages more than once an hour, while 35% admitted that they checked every 15 minutes, presumably more out of fear than joyful anticipation.
Time-management expert Jacqueline Atkinson, who is also professor of mental health policy at Glasgow University, believes e-mail stress may just be a new spin on an old problem.
In other words, those people who quake at the daily onslaught of e-mails and let them pile up in their inbox would have felt defeated by accumulating paperwork in days gone by.
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