Messaging friends at work is good for staff and bosses, study finds
The incessant buzzing of your colleague’s phone alerting them to yet another message in the family group chat may tempt you to throw it out of the office window, but according to a new study attending to your phone at work is not only good for you, it can be good for the company too.
Allowing personal use of phones in the workplace reduces stress and helps employees to achieve a better work-life balance, and it has no discernible impact on performance, researchers have found.
The European branch of an unnamed global pharmaceutical company, which had prohibited its employees from using their personal devices while working, has overturned its policy after commissioning the study, conducted by the University of Galway and the University of Melbourne.
