Effects of e‐mail addiction and interruptions on employees

Marulanda‐Carter, Laura; Jackson, Thomas W.

doi:10.1108/13287261211221146

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“…Specifically on working age samples, excessive Internet use leads to information fatigue syndrome (i.e. information overload), high cognitive costs and emotional stress, chronic insomnia, relationship problems and burnout (Kakabadse et al, 2000;Marulanda-Carter and Jackson, 2012;Young, 2010). In short, the high presence of the Internet in our working and social lives and the negative consequences justify the need to understand the construct's prevalence and its drivers.…”

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Compulsive internet use in adults: A study of prevalence and drivers within the current economic climate in the UK

Quinones-Garcia

Korak-Kakabadse

2014

Computers in Human Behavior

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Compulsive Internet Use (CIU) refers to a maladaptive relationship with the tool, including a loss of control over the use, the use for mood change and withdrawal symptoms. Most studies have relied on student samples, thus little is known about its prevalence in adults. The first objective of this study was to examine CIU in adults that were either employed (N=260) or unemployed within the last year (N=256). Second, the drivers of CIU were examined, with a focus on attitudes that reflected the reality of long working hours and job insecurity that people experience in current workplaces. A high risk of CIU (63%) with no significant differences between employed and unemployed individuals was found. However, unemployed individuals were in the highest band of Internet use, a risk factor for CIU.Interestingly, unemployed 40-55 years old females experienced higher CIU than their male counterparts. Regarding drivers of CIU, the job attitudes working excessively and compulsively were the strongest predictors, beyond emotion stability. This was particularly true at high levels of social support. In view of this, organizations should proactively evaluate the risks associated with encouraging working excessively as ill-health consequences associated with CIU could outweigh the benefits.

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confidence: 99%

Compulsive internet use in adults: A study of prevalence and drivers within the current economic climate in the UK

Quinones-Garcia

Korak-Kakabadse

2014

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…Gutwin et al [20] supported this viewpoint and suggested that distributed developers do need to maintain awareness of one another by interviews and analyzing email messages in three successful OSS projects, i.e., NetBSD, Apache httpd, and Subversion. On the other hand, however, it is also argued that social communication have some negative effect on the efficiency of work-related activities [35], since both communication and working activities may compete for the time resources of individuals [36,56]. As a result, a large number of companies have begun monitoring the usage of emails or office telephones, and employees face consequences for misusing them [11].…”

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Building it together: synchronous development in OSS

Xuan

Filkov

2014

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

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In distributed software development synchronized actions are important for completion of complex, interleaved tasks that require the abilities of multiple people. Synchronous development is manifested when file commits by two developers are close together in time and modify the same files. Here we propose quantitative methods for identifying synchronized activities in OSS projects, and use them to relate developer synchronization with effective productivity and communication. In particular, we define co-commit bursts and communication bursts, as intervals of time rich in co-commit and correspondence activities, respectively, and construct from them smoothed time series which can be, subsequently, correlated to discover synchrony. We find that synchronized co-commits between developers are associated with their effective productivity and coordination: during co-commit bursts, vs. at other times, the project size grows faster even though the overall coding effort slows down. We also find strong correlation between synchronized cocommits and communication, that is, for pairs of developers, more co-commit bursts are accompanied with more communication bursts, and their relationship follows closely a linear model. In addition, synchronized co-commits and communication activities occur very close together in time, thus, they can also be thought of as synchronizing each other. This study can help with better understanding collaborative mechanisms in OSS and the role communication plays in distributed software engineering.

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“…Some well known authors like N. Carr (2011), S. Turkle (2011), J. Laniar (2011, have articulated the emerging discomfort felt by many of those regularly immersed in digital activities that they are losing their capacity to focus. The feeling of losing agency when engrossed in digital endeavours, and a dwindling sense of control on attention, is reported by many users (Zeldes et al 2007;Misra and Stokols 2012;Marulanda and Jackson 2012). Once again, most explanations of this phenomenon invoke the limits of human ability to cope with an overabundance of information and devices.…”

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Towards a Grey Ecology

Broadbent

Lobet–Maris

2014

The Onlife Manifesto

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We often refer to the digital society as a society of abundance inasmuch as informational resources are concerned, in contrast to previous ages in which information was scarce, difficult to access and to disseminate. However, from the human perspective, this evolution may have transformed what was abundant in the past-the capacity to attend to information-into a much more scarce and widely distributed asset. If we follow the prevailing cognitivist model of attention, which postulates a mental architecture that has extensive computational power but significant intrinsic limitations in the capacity to attend to information, the formidable multiplication of informational content is inevitably determining a competitive view of the allocation of this mental resource. Following the social and economic logic of all scarce resources, we are therefore witnessing the creation of a market for attention.According to KESSOUS and alii (2010), the term 'economy of attention' was coined by M. H. Goldhaber (1997) as a more appropriate way to discuss the economic models of the information society than the traditional industrial and monetary approaches. But the concept was not new. In the early 70's, Herbert Simon had already suggested that … in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it… (Simon 1971, pp. 40-41).The main tenant of this economic model is that, in an ecosystem in which attention is scarce and information abundant, being able to attract user focus has a huge L. Floridi (ed.), The Onlife Manifesto,

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Effects of e‐mail addiction and interruptions on employees

Cited by 48 publications

References 24 publications

Compulsive internet use in adults: A study of prevalence and drivers within the current economic climate in the UK

Compulsive internet use in adults: A study of prevalence and drivers within the current economic climate in the UK

Building it together: synchronous development in OSS

Towards a Grey Ecology

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