Science says so.
If you work in an office, at some point you've probably had a coworker evangalise about how much switching off email has changed their life. Turns out, they're right.
Checking email from a hammock probably makes you less stressed too, but scientists haven't studied that yet.
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New research published in the journal Computers in Human Behaviour has found that checking email less frequently reduces stress. There's tons of anecdotal evidence that switching email off for long periods helps you to get stuff done and stress less at work, but now this scientific study backs that up.
During one week, 124 adults were randomly assigned to limit checking their email to three times a day; during the other week, participants could check their email an unlimited number of times per day. We found that during the limited email use week, participants experienced significantly lower daily stress than during the unlimited email use week.
Lower stress levels meant that study participants rated higher on a lot of measures of well-being.
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