Research Outcome
Do you answer emails outside work hours?
Do you send them? New research shows how dangerous this can be!
What could be so bad about answering a few emails in the evening? Perhaps something urgent pops up, we are tidying up an issue from the day, or trying to get ahead for tomorrow. Always being online and available is one of the ways we demonstrate our work ethic and professionalism.
But the creep of digital communications into our entire lives is not as harmless as we think.
Media
Interviews & Media Events
e-Stress project team member, Dr Amy Zadow explains
- e-Stress project team member, Dr Amy Zadow, was interviewed on ABC TV News by Kirsten Aiken about the concept of ‘always working’ and email use at home (15/07/2021).
- e-Stress project team member, Dr Amy Zadow, was interviewed on the radio by Toby Hemmings on The Daily, the radio morning current affairs program on 2SER 107.3FM in Sydney (15/07/2021).
- e-Stress project team member, Dr Amy Zadow, was interviewed by Emily Day from The Age. The article was published in both The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers on ‘What could be so bad about answering a few emails in the evening?’ (15/07/2021).
- e-Stress project work was featured in the India Times, New Atlas, Shortpedia, Channel NewsAsia and seventeen other international outlets from 15 – 19/7/21.
- e-Stress project team member, Dr Amy Zadow, was interviewed by Victoria Allen, Science Correspondent for the UK Daily Mail. The resultant newspaper article was published ‘Answering emails could be bad for your health’ (15/7/21) and in Australia as ‘Step away from the smartphone: Answering emails out of hours increases your risk of stress, emotional exhaustion headaches and back pain, experts warn’ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9792209/Answering-emails-hours-increases-risk-stress-experts-warn.html
- e-Stress project team member, Dr Amy Zadow, was interviewed by Trine Solberg, a journalist from the Norwegian newspaper, Nettavisen, (14/07/2021).
- e-Stress project team member, Dr Amy Zadow, was interviewed by Matt van Wyk on the Monday Breakfast program on 2SER 107.3FM, a community radio station in Sydney (26/07/2021) Link to interview recording – https://2ser.com/the-creep-of-workplace-digital-communications/
- e-Stress project work was featured on HRM (The news site of the Australian HR Institute)(24/08/2021) https://www.hrmonline.com.au/employee-wellbeing/leaveism-presenteeism-wellbeing/
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