Phone calls, massages and emails after working hour harm your health in great potential

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Are you expected to monitor your work email even after working hours? This organizational culture can be "always active" harmful to their health and wellbeing, even if they do not work outside the working hours, according to a study.
The study shows that such expectations lead to concern that negatively affects the health of employees and their families.

"Competitive demands at work and in work life are a dilemma for employees, which raises concerns and puts life at work and personal life at risk," said William Baker, associate professor at the Virginia Tech University in the United States.

Previous studies have shown that pressure from increased labor requirements generates tensions and conflicts in family relationships when a staff member can not perform jobs other than working at home, "such as when someone brings the work home to finish it." The new study shows that employees do not need to spend real time working hours after experiencing harmful effects.

Just expectations of availability increase stress for employees and loved ones, even when employees do not perform real work during the non-working period.

Unlike the demands for work that drain staff resources, both physical and psychological, by requiring time away from home, "the bloody effect of organizational culture is not always" always "hidden as an advantage: comfort, for example, or greater autonomy And control the limits of work and life, "Baker said.

"Our research exposes reality:" flexible work limits "often turn out to be" limitless, "putting the health and welfare of the employee and his family at risk.

"Today's staff must move across more complex boundaries between work and family than ever," Baker said.

"Employers' expectations during hours of non-employment seem to increase this burden, because employees feel obliged to change roles throughout the period of non-employment," he said.

"Efforts to manage these expectations are more important than ever, given our finding that the families of employees are also affected by these expectations."