Working 9-5? Professional differences in email and boundary management practices

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 3989-3998

  Cecchinato, Marta E ^a   Cox, Anna L ^a   Bird, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary management; Crossdevice interaction; Email; Email overload; Work and personal email; Work home interference

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CROSS-DEVICE INTERACTIONS; E-MAIL OVERLOAD; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FLEXIBLE WORKING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; PERSONAL LIVES; PROFESSIONAL SERVICES; USER GROUPS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 84951162578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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