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Earlier this year, France passed a labor reform law that banned checking emails on weekends. New research—to be presented next week at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management—suggests other countries might do well to follow suit, for the sake of employee health and productivity.
[...] Using data collected from 365 working adults, [Liuba] Belkin [of Lehigh University], and her colleagues [William Becker of Virginia Tech and Samantha A. Conroy of Colorado State University] look at the role of organizational expectation regarding "off" hour emailing and find it negatively impacts employee emotional states, leading to "burnout" and diminished work-family balance, which is essential for individual health and well-being. The study—described in an article entitled "Exhausted, but unable to disconnect: the impact of email-related organizational expectations on work-family balance"—is the first to identify email-related expectations as a job stressor along with already established factors such as high workload, interpersonal conflicts, physical environment or time pressure.
[...] Interestingly, they found that it is not the amount of time spent on work emails, but the expectation which drives the resulting sense of exhaustion. Due to anticipatory stress—defined as a constant state of anxiety and uncertainty as a result of perceived or anticipated threats, according to research cited in the article—employees are unable to detach and [therefore] feel exhausted regardless of the time spent on after-hours emails.
(Score: 1) by driven on Thursday July 28 2016, @05:44AM
You're better off being honest than getting hired into a job you despise. If there is a large mismatch between your value system and theirs, sparks are sure to fly.
That's why I don't even bother applying at places that have a reputation for grueling hours -- that's not the kind of life I want. If I absolutely needed the cash and jobs were few and far between then I'd not have a lot of choice, but it would definitely be as short a term as possible.
I'm not sure what kind of job you were going for, but I've always managed to be honest. Maybe in sales or executive positions things are different - I don't know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @05:57AM
That's why I don't even bother applying at places that have a reputation for grueling hours -- that's not the kind of life I want.
I hear ya. I'm not bothering to apply anywhere until the one-hour work week becomes law. Because that's the kind of life I want.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @06:12AM
Slaves defending slave owners. Classic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @06:16AM
Universal basic income gonna fix every thing. Any day now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:22PM
That isnt gonna do a goddam thing because France is about multiculturalism, which means Islamic savages are going to be beheading, raping, and bombing you because you're so progressive and tolerant while a militarized police force roams your streets and buttstocks you in the teeth for not following orders while your leaders tell you that random terror attacks are the new normal, and as tolerant progressives, to get used to them.
How does that affect your well-being, weekend emails or not?