Nearly 2,000 people in the U.K. from different industries participated in the study carried out by Dr Richard MacKinnon from the Future Work Centre. Researchers analyzed how the participants perceived email pressure and investigated factors that influenced this perception.
The results showed that many people have bad habits when it comes to managing their emails with 62 per cent of the participants having their emails on all day. Researchers also found that the participants who checked their emails first thing in the morning were suffering from higher levels of stress and pressure than those who didn’t.
The research was presented at the British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Occupational Psychology’s annual conference.
