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Mantenerse alejado del correo electr\u00f3nico del trabajo durante un tiempo reduce el estr\u00e9s y ayuda a los empleados a concentrarse mejor, de acuerdo con un estudio de la Universidad de California.<\/p>\nMantenerse alejado del correo electr\u00f3nico del trabajo durante un tiempo reduce el estr\u00e9s y ayuda a los empleados a concentrarse mejor, de acuerdo con un estudio de la Universidad de California.<\/p>\n
Los investigadores monitorizaron los latidos card\u00edacos de usuarios de ordenador en un edificio de oficinas, a la vez que unos detectores de software registraban con qu\u00e9 frecuencia abr\u00edan y cerraban las ventanas del escritorio de su PC. As\u00ed comprobaron que las personas que consultaban sus cuentas de correo electr\u00f3nico cambiaban de pantalla el doble de veces y se manten\u00edan fisiol\u00f3gicamente en un estado de \u201calerta elevada\u201d, con latidos card\u00edacos m\u00e1s constantes. Sin embargo, aquellos a los que se les oblig\u00f3 a prescindir del correo electr\u00f3nico durante cinco d\u00edas ten\u00edan un ritmo card\u00edaco m\u00e1s natural, con latidos variables, lo cual se considera un indicador de salud.<\/p>\n
\u201cCuando obligas a los trabajadores a descansar del correo electr\u00f3nico, practican menos la multitarea y experimentan menos estr\u00e9s\u201d, concluye Gloria Mark, que presentar\u00e1 los resultados del estudio en la Conferencia de la Asociaci\u00f3n para la Interacci\u00f3n Humano-Computador que se celebra la pr\u00f3xima semana en Austin, Texas (EE UU). El estudio tambi\u00e9n revel\u00f3 que las personas con un programa de correo electr\u00f3nico abierto cambiaban de ventana 37 veces cada hora, mientras que los que no usaban este servicio cambiaban el contenido de su pantalla solo 18 veces en el mismo per\u00edodo de tiempo. Dado que el estr\u00e9s se asocia a m\u00faltiples problemas de salud (cardiopat\u00edas, obesidad, entre otras enfermedades), aplicar esta medida en el trabajo puede tener un efecto positivo sobre el bienestar a largo plazo.<\/p>\n
Los investigadores aseguran que los participantes \u00abdesconectados del e-mail\u00bb tienden a interactuar m\u00e1s en persona para sustituir a la comunicaci\u00f3n electr\u00f3nica, lo cual supone beneficios extra.<\/p>\n
*Nota de New York Times
\nTaking E-Mail Vacations Can Reduce Stress, Study Says<\/p>\n
You probably don\u2019t need a doctor or scientist to tell you this, but your e-mail could be killing you.A new study released Thursday by the University of California, Irvine, which was co-written with United States Army researchers, found that people who do not look at e-mail on a regular basis at work are less stressed and more productive.<\/p>\n
The study, \u201cA Pace Not Dictated by Electrons: An Empirical Study of Work Without Email,\u201d looked at 13 workers in a typical office setting and asked them to discontinue e-mail for five days. The results were that during the e-mail hiatus, these people spent longer periods of time focusing on a single task at work and shifted between computer windows much less than those who were slaves to their in-box.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that we found that people are less stressed when they don\u2019t have e-mail shows that there are ways to change the way we use e-mail in the work setting,\u201d explained Gloria Mark, an informatics professor who has been studying the effects of e-mail in the workplace since 2004. \u201cWe suggest doing what we call batching e-mails, where organizations send e-mails once or twice a day, rather than continually, so employees know not to check their e-mail every 10 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms. Mark also suggests taking \u201ce-mail vacations\u201d where people take a few days away from their in-box. \u201cWe were able to get second-by-second stress levels from our tests and we found that over the five-day period away from e-mail, people\u2019s stress levels went down compared with when they were using e-mails,\u201d Ms. Mark said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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