Get Work Emails During Family Time? You've Gotta Read This! by Mei Marcie

A study on the effects of after-work email serves as a reminder for us all – if you're a supervisor, don't expect your staff to be "on" all the time. Here's how after-work email may affect us!

• Adds to emotional exhaustion.
• Upsets work-family balance.
• Anticipation of being "pinged" is draining (even if not much work is needed to be done).
• Less ability to detach from work.
• Especially hard for people who prefer to keep job and family life separate.

Efforts to help, such as the French government passing a law this year requiring companies with 50 or more workers to limit after-hours email, are not common. That leaves it to us to help ourselves and our coworkers to have a work-life balance.

Read more about this study here.