"Digital tension" .. warning of an upcoming danger expanding in the workplace

Digital instruments cover more space in the workplace as it plays an assistant role for employees by performing their tasks, but it also poses the risks of the so -called ‘digital tension’, where a recent study indicates that 31% of employees are too much related to these services. “Email messages, remote meetings, internal messages and comfortable internet access, which have turned our lives upside down.” DAB added: “It is possible to talk about digital stress, when it exceeds the amount of available information we need to process, our ability,” which is a topic that is an “increasing space” under different names, including “information spill”, “digital hardship” or “technical psychological pressure”. “Can these instruments, or rather, use these instruments to turn us on?” He said during this intervention for health and safety at work. In turn, the lawyer at a Paris specialized business said Adrian Debier: “What I find is a relatively complicated recently, after the kofid and closing periods, the multiplication of channels, which means we no longer flow the source of” messages, between e -mail, “teams”, “whatsapp” and text messages. An excessive communication and epidemic scientist William Dab see that “the central phenomenon is excessive communication that can lead to excessive spiritual pregnancy.” He sees it as “a vicious cycle with a kind of constant pressure that makes us move from one source of information to another, in addition to the feeling that we are losing control at some point, and a situation of psychological pressure” that reaches the stage of professional exhaustion at some point. ” DAB said: “As a doctor, I analyze this matter as a new form of addiction that we still know little about its consequences, even if the effects of stress are well known.” These consequences are not limited to the ‘spiritual’ side as these elements are linked to an increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease, risks associated with the metabolic process “, as well as’ immune ‘effects. Similarly reduces psychological pressure professional performance, and although digital instruments’ open the door to work. “In short, these very useful instruments can also affect health and quality of life.” (10), the results show that 31% of employees are exposed to excessive communication by sending email after eight o’clock in the evening for more than 50 nights per year (117 nights for drivers). In addition, more than 50% of the email is answered within less than an hour to receive them, and these messages generate ‘very digital noise’, as 25% of the messages that employees received are not personally addressed to them, but rather via the ‘answer to all’ functions. The study also measured ‘full focus’ periods (one hour without sending email post messages). At the level of management, the percentage of these periods is only 11% per week (24% for managers and 42% for employees). DAB believes that this matter means a loss of ‘effectiveness and depth of analysis’, adding ‘we may have reached the threshold of the Shama, but’ it is still possible to act in these cases, according to what the epidemiologist claims, by limiting the information to ‘what is really needed’, by ‘keeping the screen at certain times’ or even by physical activities. The goal ultimately lies in “not allowing itself to promise itself as it happens to solid drug users.” Also read: