World Health Day: Age of 9-5 is expiring for 24/7 working, study claims

Do you check your phone first thing in the morning and last thing at night? If your answer’s yes, then you’re not alone. Nine-to-five is dying, and 24/7 is replacing it.

Three-quarters of Brits feel under pressure to respond to emails outside of work hours which can increase anxiety, according to research from Bupa UK for World Health Day, and the same figure wake up and go to sleep with message-checking manifesting in their mind.  

Over half of Brits now access their work emails remotely and, sadly, the findings suggest that emails are replacing loved ones as the first thing working Brits think about.

This all, inevitably, has a negative effect on the individual and, consequently, their work.