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Do you answer emails outside work hours? Do you send them? New research shows how dangerous this can be

  • Written by Amy Zadow, Research Fellow in Organisational Psychology, University of South Australia
Do you answer emails outside work hours? Do you send them? New research shows how dangerous this can beScott Howes/AAP

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...

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