Checking Email Less Often Leads to More Productive Workdays

Researchers from Michigan State University say that keeping up with email throughout the day places high — and sometimes downright impossible — demands on managers that prevents them from achieving their personal goals and from being good leaders for their teams. The managers reported the frequency and demands of their emails, their perception of their progress on core job duties, and how often they helped their team by engaging in effective transformational leader behaviors and structure leader behaviors. “We found that on days when managers reported high email demands, they report lower perceived work progress as a result, and in turn engage in fewer effective leader behaviors,” says Johnson.

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