"If you think about this, it makes great sense, and may reflect your own WFH experience. Picture sitting watching a show with the family when your phone pings-it's an email from your boss, and gentle anxiety pushes you to spend a minute or two checking the message. Such interruptions, if brief, are probably harmless, but if they recur often and responding to them becomes a habit it's easy to see how they could put stress on family life and relationships."
"Psychology researchers carried out detailed quizzes with over 100 couples who cohabit and work from home-a measure of the ongoing embrace of remote work arrangements since the pandemic. The big takeaway from the investigation was that work-centric digital tools, which allow for all sorts of productivity boosts during work hours, can also intrude into precious family time. If you think about this, it makes great sense, and may reflect your own WFH experience."
Over 100 cohabiting couples who work from home completed detailed quizzes measuring the effects of digital work tools on family life. Work-centric digital tools that boost productivity during work hours frequently intrude into family time through repeated pings and micro-interruptions. Brief interruptions can be harmless, but recurring checks become habitual and increase anxiety, undermining shared leisure and domestic interactions. Women experience disproportionate mental impact from these workplace digital interruptions, linked to a higher share of domestic chores and expectations of invisible labor. The blurring of work and family time worsens when both partners work from home compared with households where only one partner is remote. Mutual workplace frustrations and the "infinite workday" phenomenon pose additional risks to relationship quality and mental health.
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