Shut off e-mail to ease work stress

This is Scientific American 60-second Mind. I'm Sophie Bershuic. Got a minute?

---> This is Scientific American 60-second Mind. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute?

You've got mail!

By alerting you as soon as mail arrives, you constantly open the e-mail window keeps on your toes, right?

---> By alerting you as soon as mail arrives, a constantly open e-mail window keeps you on your toes, right? 

Actually a new study finds that closing your inbox can boost concentration and ease stress.

The research will be presented at the Association for Computing Machinaries Computer-Human Interaction Conference.

---> The research will be presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Conference. 

With the permission of their supervisors, workers in a suburban office took e-mail vacations. 

They did not check their mail for five days.

As they aren't their e-mail, their neighbored coworkers use their computers, monitors recorded their heart rates and software sensors observed when they switch one browser window to another.

---> As they and their e-mail-enabled co-workers used their computers, monitors recorded their heart rates and software sensors observed when they switched from one browser window to another.

Workers with access to e-mail had constant heart rates which indicate the state of high alert. 

---> Workers with access to e-mail had constant heart rates, which indicate a state of high alert.

But heart rates of those for going e-mail fluctuated naturally: a marker for being under less stress. 

---> But the heart rates of those forgoing e-mail fluctuated naturally, a marker for being under less stress. 

Plus, those receiving mail multi-tasked more.

They switched from window to window twice as often as those not checking e-mail.

So designating times, when workers checked their e-mail laber new stress and increase productivity. 

---> So, designating times when workers check their e-mail may reduce stress and increase productivity. 

But the vertics still loud on twitters.

---> But the verdict’s still out on Twitter.

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=shut-off-e-mail-to-ease-work-stress-12-05-07

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keep one on one's toes: to keep one attentive, active, busy or alert.

verdict: 의견, 답신