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This software can kill you
There is a piece of software on your computer that has the potential to shorten your life, not to mention impact on your quality of work life.
It’s your email. Turn it off.
You’re beavering away on an important proposal and suddenly, ‘Ping!’, a message flashes up. ‘Urgent’, it says, before you read it to find you’re cc’d on the inter-office car parking rota. You go back to your proposal, but you’ve lost your train of thought.
Sure, it’s annoying, but where’s the danger?
In a joint research exercise, the University of California and the US Military wired up a group of office workers to an EEG machine to monitor the effect email was having on them. Those in the group that had emails downloading automatically were ...
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