Turning off your work phone and emails could help reduce after-hours work stress


New research has found that work emails and messages in non-work time can increase stress. — dpa

New US research has found that messages and emails about work after you’ve clocked off for the day can increase levels of negative thinking and stress.

Carried out by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the new study recruited 546 full-time public elementary school teachers to measure how work could intrude in their after-work hours via technologies such as smartphones and emails.

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