• Main Street, Thursday, February 26, 2015 4:23 PM

Wendy Boswell, a professor at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School, and her research partner, Marcus Butts, have identified what they are calling "a new night shift," as workers are checking email after work. The two researchers interviewed 341 working adults across a seven-day period. The research found that 21 percent of emails sent after work came from supervisors, 41 percent came from coworkers, 16 percent from subordinates and 22 percent came from clients. All of this after work email is not necessarily a bad thing. If it includes praise, it didn't bother the recipients. If it was negative, not surprisingly, it stressed out workers.

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