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Is checking email late into the night making you tense , affecting your relationships, and generally screwing with your life ?
Then you may well be suffering from technostress , a threat to our well being that is finally being taken seriously by researchers .
The condition isn’t helped by managers who expect that we will always be ready to reply to late-night or weekend messages.
Some bosses have realized that far worse than existential despair and suicidal depression , this also makes us drones less productive , and so they’ve started banning out of hours emails .
French workers have even won the right to disconnect , allowing them to insist on email-free evenings and weekends . And a lot of us are asking when the rest of the world will follow suit.
