Here’s one to tell your manager about: taking time out at work to dip into your personal email can be good for employees’ morale.
Research by email provider GMX has found that 69 per cent of UK workers will spend time working through their own inboxes on company time (or at least that’s how many admitted to it). And one in three of these people said that these brief breaks actually offered much-needed light relief in the midst of daily responsibilities (they would though, wouldn’t they?). Be it exchanging a joke with a friend, sorting out your evening plans or merely a moment of writing in an informal style for a change, you’ll probably return to the task at hand the fresher for it.
While no-one is suggesting that spending hours on end scouring YouTube or throwing virtual sheep at people is a valuable or reasonable use of your workday, reminding yourself that you’re not a report-writing automaton (before getting back to writing that report of course) is definitely worth a cheeky five minutes. Happy workers are productive workers, right?
Tags: Email, GMX, office workers, personal email
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