You truly can’t unplug from work: Study shows ‘shame’ felt by employees for properly detaching from emails, messages
NY Post
No slack for Slack users?
New research highlights what many employees have felt for some time — unplugging from work, messages and emails has unfortunately become a thing of the past.
A study in the Journal of Applied Psychology, published amid fresh rounds of nationwide layoffs, dives into the pressure felt by workers that keeps them from being truly offline.
A quartet of university professors observed nearly 200 full-time employees for two weeks to see how they managed their time away from the job and how burnout reared its ugly head.
“The more employees detached in the evening, the more shame they felt at work the next morning. Paradoxically, the very experience that’s supposed to rejuvenate employees made them feel bad about themselves instead — like they were problematic employees,” the study authors wrote Sunday in the Wall Street Journal.
Adding insult to injury, this shame led to employees being “more likely to cut corners” from 9 to 5 by making themselves appear busier and doing more than they actually were.
