Email reading work can increase blood pressure?
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Professor Tom Jackson of Loughborough University to observe the relationship between the use of email and blood pressure, heart rate, and cortisol levels in 30 people. The results indicate a link between the use of email and the level of stress. This study found that employees are more susceptible to stress him with the more frequent use of email, both read and send email.
Approximately 92 percent of participants experienced an increase in blood pressure and heart rate when using e-mail and telephone. But the researchers found that when employees are happy to receive emails containing useful information or information which contains praise and gratitude.
However, employees will experience an increase in blood pressure and stress when receiving emails that are irrelevant or contains tasks that must be done as soon as possible. Employees also experienced an increase in blood pressure when receiving an email that is not related to their work. Even so, Professor Jackson said that the email is not the enemy.
"During this email is used in a variety of research and sometimes seen as a negative impact of communication media. Yet this study shows that email causes stress when compared to email freely. That means that the email can still be used as an effective medium of communication," he said, as reported by the Daily Mail.
Furthermore, Jackson explained that the cause of stress is the possibility of multi-tasking by employees when receiving emails and phone interfere with the work they're doing. It is different when employees do face-to-face meetings.
Employees should learn to manage time, when to check email and do their jobs, so they will not stress because multi-tasking is done. Stress can lead to chronic health conditions such as high blood pressure, thyroid disease, kidney failure, and others.
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