Are you okay ?? E-mails outside business hours double insomnia on Oct. 8 at 20:08
Experts survey that the more work emails they receive outside business hours, such as late at night or on holidays, the quality of sleep will be degraded, and that the amount of waking up in the middle of the night will be doubled compared to the days when there are few emails I understand.
This was conducted for 55 people in their 20s to 50s, a group of senior researchers, Tomohide Kubo from the Labor Safety and Health Research Institute, working on health issues for workers.
In the survey, we used a watch-type sleep meter and an app to measure fatigue levels to examine the sleep status of 55 people for one month.
According to it, on the day when there are a lot of work emails received outside business hours, I woke up in the middle of the night called `` intermediate awakening '' and after that, on average there was about 20 minutes of sleeplessness This was outside business hours It means that the quality of sleep has declined twice as long compared to days with few emails.
Researcher Kubo, who conducted the survey, said, “The more emails outside of work hours, the more we think about work concerns after leaving the office, which leads to a decline in sleep quality. Not only work productivity but work It may lead to human health damage, and measures are necessary. "
According to the labor union, a lot of e-mails are sent late at night or on holidays, and responses and responses are also required, and there are people who get sick and some of them complain about health damage such as depression There are cases where I quit.
Under these circumstances, companies are beginning to take advantage of the “unconnected rights” that can reject calls and emails from supervisors outside business hours.