A third of Dutch office workers indicate that e-mail flow leads to stress for them. The amount of stress increases the more time one spends answering e-mail. More than half of the respondents who spend two hours or more on it every day indicate that this leads to stress and 11 percent even experience a lot of stress. This is apparent from research by the Dutch Professional Association of Professional Organizers (NBPO), in the context of the e-mail-free Friday. It was also investigated how much time people spend answering and processing e-mail traffic. Almost 40 percent spend one to two hours a day on it and a fifth spend no less than a quarter of their working day on email. Executives spend more time than average on the e-mail flow. A quarter receive 50-100 a day.
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* No less than 42 percent of Dutch employees believe that the daily mail flow distracts from the daily, actual tasks.
* No less than 90 percent of office workers have the e-mail notifications on continuously and that leads far too much.
* A quarter receives and reads business e-mail on the smartphone that they also use privately, and also checks this e-mail in the evenings and at weekends. A fifth of these respondents find this burdensome.
