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Emails a leading cause of workplace stressDate: 15/08/2007 10:11:24
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More than one in three UK workers feel stressed due to the number of e-mails they receive in the office.
In a study carried out by Glasgow and Paisley Universities in Scotland, 38 per cent of the 200 workers questioned felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of mails in the inbox, with many claiming to checking their e-mail accounts up to 40 times an hour.
Female workers were found to be under greater stress from the deluge, the study also found.
Karen Renaud, a computer scientist and the study's leader, said: "E-mail is the thing that now causes the most problems in our working lives.
"It's an amazing tool but it's got out of hand"
According to work psychologists, the best way for workers to avoid e-mail-related stress is to dedicate several times in a day to checking their inboxes and categorising correspondence into those which require an immediate reply and those which can be left a while.
Recent research by the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London, found that around one in 20 UK workers become clinically depressed or anxious as a result of work-related stress.
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