Email stress test: Experiment unplugs workers for 5 days
Saturday, September 1, 2012 - 01:01
in Psychology & Sociology
A UC Irvine professor finds people are more relaxed and productive without it – but they quickly go back to their old ways.Slave to your email? Wonder what would happen if you had to do without it? UC Irvine informatics professor Gloria Mark was curious — so she recently led a study that separated 13 people from their email for five days and recorded what happened when they unplugged.