Monthly Archives: November 2015

Time: “Company bans email for 1 week, Employee stress levels plummet” (Mark quoted)

November 12, 2015

A 2012 study from the University of California, Irvine found that people who were unable to access email for five days were not only more productive, they had “more natural, variable heart rates.” Over at the Atlantic today, Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, said people check their email on average about 77 times per day, and it’s the checking of email (rather than writing) that is most stressful.

View the full story on the Time website.

The Atlantic: “Is email evil?” (Mark quoted)

According to Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, … “The more email people do, the lower is their assessed productivity, … [and] the lower is their positive mood at the end of the day.” … “I just think we have to rethink email, and even redesign the way email is used,” Mark said in Codebreaker’s first episode.

Read the full story on The Atlantic website.