Comments on: Dealing with Email Stress

By: D.P.

D.P. — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:48:16 +0000

I’d advise rather the opposite – check your e-mail as regulary as possible so to deal with the new items bit by bit as they come along. Otherwise you’d be confronted with a huge pile, and believe me, it could be quite panic-striking to see the INBOX(20) “urgent”-s.

By: Belle Hertanez

Belle Hertanez — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:37:45 +0000

I just changed my e-mail settings to check for messages from “Every 1 minute” to “Every 15 minutes.”

By: Graham Jones - Internet Psychologist

Graham Jones - Internet Psychologist — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:34:36 +0000

Great post. I was interviewed several times by newspapers and radio stations in the UK about this research. What was fascinating by the tone of the questions I was asked is how emailing appears to have replaced “water cooler conversation” or chats in the corridor. People don’t appear to be viewing email as a replacement for memos, letters or other printed communication. They seem, from the tone of questions I was asked by journalists, to be viewing email as chat. For this reason, the sensible advice of checking twice a day – the same advice I gave in my interviews – might not work. Indeed, I know of people in my studies who suffer severe stress if they do not check their emails every couple of minutes. To them it is like being ignored by people in the office.