- The EmailTooltester Survey reveals that many employees feel in a hurry to respond to emails after the hours
- Only 41.7% of work emails are deemed relevant by employees
- Three in four workers respond to work emails during the holidays
A new survey said that 90.4% of American workers support a “right to disconnect” law, which allows them to ignore the work emails outside of office hours without fear of repercussions.
The study of EmailTooltester of more than a thousand Americans revealed that the majority of respondents were overwhelmed by the volume of the work emails they receive.
On average, the survey revealed that people receive 32 emails per day, some obtaining more than 50 years. However, only about 41.7% of these emails are relevant to their work, adding to frustration.
Anxiety by email
Although many messaging services offer “snooze” or “not disturbing” parameters, allowing users to deactivate notifications outside working hours, many workers feel obliged to respond quickly. 71.1% of respondents think that their bosses expect the immediate responses to send an email after the hours.
These work emails mean that 80.8% of respondents feel anxious, while an additional 58.3% are more worried about how they should settle regularly with these emails. Three in four admitting people responded to the work emails on vacation.
The investigation revealed constant pressure to stay at the top of emails affects the mental health of workers. 78.7% of respondents feared opening their reception box, 58.5% regularly knowing this anxiety.
The availability of messaging customers, as well as assistance lends for most messaging accommodation platforms on devices, which makes workers difficult to die mentally. Two-thirds of workers have lost sleep above an email and 73.6% admit to communicate less with dear beings due to the professional exhaustion of work related to work.
This e-mail stress is aggravated by errors made to precipitation to answer. About 65.1% of respondents said they had trouble at work for email errors, some claiming that they lacked important emails due to the size of the reception box or messages sent to spam.
As more people feel the negative effects of constant connectivity, the push for a law of “right to disconnect” is gaining momentum.
Almost all respondents (90.4%) agreed that such a law would benefit them, providing protection against working communication outside the hours.
Similar legislation has already been introduced in France and, more recently, in Australia, where employees have the legal right to disconnect from work after hours.
Despite this overwhelming support, 70.6% of respondents think that their bosses would resist such a law. However, the need for boundaries between work and personal life becomes more obvious because digital communication blurs the line.
