You’re on vacation, but checks his emails from work so she wakes up. It gets worried if we did not have a good wifi or your mobile runs out of signal.
These are typical signs that you may be suffering from stress known as “always on”, which affects people who can not drop their smartphones.
For some, the devices released them a strict routine in the office. The working hours were more flexible, giving more autonomy to the employee. For others, however, smartphones have become true tyrants inside the pocket, preventing its users to disconnect from work.
And this dependence becomes increasingly worrisome, say observers.
The American Kevin Holesh was so worried that ignore increasingly relatives and friends because of your iPhone that created an application – Moment -. monitor for their own use
The application will lets count the amount of time spent in the smartphone and warns if that use exceeds limits Holesh if autoimpôs.
“The goal is to promote balance in life,” says his website. “(Past) time on the phone and one time without him, enjoying his family and friends.”
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And some employers are realizing that it is not very easy to maintain this balance between personal and professional life. Some need outside help.
The German carmaker Daimler, for example, recently began offering an automatic “eraser” e-mails to employees on vacation, recognizing that many find it difficult to switch off from work.
“The negative impacts of this culture of ‘always on’ is that your mind never rests, you do not give your body time to recover and is always stressed,” he told BBC occupational psychologist Christine Grant, the center of research in psychology and behavior of Coventry University (UK).
“And the more fatigue and stress, commit more errors. Mental and physical health may suffer.”
The fact that we can be connected to work from anywhere in the world is fueling insecurity continues Grant.
“There is a tremendous anxiety about the delegate,” he says. “In my research, I found many exhausted people traveled because connected all the time, regardless of the time zone in which they were”
Women cause concern in particular:. Many spend the day working, come home to care the children and still do an extra day on the computer before bed.
“This triple journey can have a big impact on health,” says Grant.
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President of the British Society of Occupational Medicine, Alastair Emslie, agrees, claiming that hundreds of thousands of Britons report annually suffer from stress at work -. enough to get sick
“The changes technology contribute to this, especially if they make employees feel unable to cope with increasing demands or lose control over their workload “
data shows that Britons spend up to 11 hours a day consuming media.; ., and Brazil has one of the largest global indices of daily use of smartphones (about 1h30)
And with the growing number of smartphones, so does the amount of data at our disposal – which can lead to a kind of paralysis, argues Michael Rendell, who works with the consultancy PwC.
“This creates more stress in the workplace because people are having to cover a greater amount of information and media , and it is difficult to manage everything. becomes more difficult to make decisions, and many lose productivity because they feel overwhelmed and ever escape from work. “
” We think to keep checking emails is working, but often not something productive, “argues British lawyer Tim Forer.
He explains that the constant checking emails outside the office can, in some cases, disregard labor laws. “This puts at risk the duty of the company to ensure their employees,” he says.
Available
A survey of IT company SolarWinds says more than half of workers interviewed feel that they are expected to work faster and meet deadlines smaller by being more connected. Almost half of them think that their employers expect them to be available at any time or place.
Of course not everything is negative. Chris Kozup, director of telecom company Aruba Networks, says a study conducted by the firm itself “shows that this idea of ’always connected’ is actually helping workers to manage the balance between work and personal life.”
The key is to have this flexibility to act on their behalf and be disciplined in the use of smartphones.
That is, if you are going on vacation, remember to activate the alerts that warn you to be “out of office”, turn off your phone and keep it out of reach when sleeping. And the advice of Christine Grant is: remember that “rarely are you the only one capable of solving a problem” in the office
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