- Emiltooltester Survey finds that many employees feel pressured to respond to emails after hours
- Only 41.7% of work emails are considered relevant by employees
- Three out of four workers respond electronic jobs while on vacation
A new survey has claimed 90.4% of US workers who support a law of “right to disconnect”, allowing them to ignore the electronic work emails outside office hours without fear of repercussions.
The study by Emiltooltester of more than a thousand Americans revealed that most respondents are overwhelmed by the volume of emails they receive.
On average, the survey found that people receive 32 emails per day, and some obtain more than 50. However, only about 41.7% of these emails are relevant to their work, which increases frustration.
Although many email services offer “sleeping” or “not disturbing” configurations, which allows users to silence notifications outside work hours, many workers feel pressured to respond quickly. 71.1% of respondents believe that their bosses expect immediate answers to send an email after hours.
These electronic work emails make 80.8% of respondents feel anxious, while another 58.3% are more anxious for regularity that they have to deal with such emails. Three out of four people admit responding emails of vacation work.
The survey found that the constant pressure to stay aware of the emails is affecting the mental health of the workers. 78.7% of respondents have feared to open their work input tray, with 58.5% regularly experiencing this anxiety.
The availability of email customers, in addition to support ready for most email accommodation platforms on all devices, makes workers difficult to turn off mentally. Two thirds of workers have lost sleep by an email, and 73.6% admit to communicate less with their loved ones due to the depletion of work -related communications.
This email stress is aggravated by errors made in the rush to respond. Around 65.1% of the respondents reported that they got into problems at work due to errors by email, and some said that they lost important emails due to the disorder of the entrance tray or the messages that are sent to spam.
As more people feel the negative effects of constant connectivity, the impulse of a law of “right to disconin” is gaining impulse.
Almost all respondents (90.4%) agreed that said law would benefit them, offering protection against work communication out of time.
Similar legislation in France has already been introduced and, more recently, Australia, where employees have the legal right to disconnect from work after hours.
Despite this overwhelming support, 70.6% of respondents believe that their bosses would resist such law. However, the need for limits between work and personal life is increasingly evident as digital communication blurs the line.
