Citing the results of her own research on productivity at work, Charlotte Fritz says the findings on microbreaks is counterintuitive but real.
Nearly across the board, microbreaks that were not job-related, such as getting a glass of water, calling a relative, or going to the bathroom, didn’t seem to have any significant relationship to people’s reported energy (what we called their vitality).
Source: Ascend, Link.
. . . technology has made it hard to leave work at the end of the day, to achieve what we call psychological detachment.
Detachment is well researched and related to all kinds of great outcomes: improved health, sleep, and life satisfaction, and lower burnout, says Fritz. Just one caveat: Too much detachment seems to negatively affect performance.
So you can’t totally check out. That just means that you don’t throw your phone out the window. You just shut it off at night.
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