Study Your partners cell phone use might be dragging down your career

Study Yur partners cell phone use might be dragging down your careerStudy Your partners cell phone use might be dragging down your careerYour spouse answering his babos call at home could be wrecking your career.A new study in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology found that a spouses cell phone use at home can lead to a lower sense of job performance and satisfaction for their partner.Study Smartphone use during family time leads to poorer job performanceThe study surveyed 344 married couples who worked full-time about their mobile phone use. The partners who watched their spouses use a smart devices during family time at home reported lower job satisfaction and rated themselves as weaker performers at work.So why does our partners phone scrolling impact us at work?Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreThe study suggested that using smartphones during family time created rela tionship tension that spills over to work outcomes for the spouse in the form of reduced job satisfaction and performance.What employers can doThe researchers suggest that employers can avoid productivity and employee engagement losses by keeping their professional interactions to work hours.Its really no surprise that conflict was created when a spouse is using a mobile device at home, Wayne Crawford, one of the studys authors, said. Theyre sometimes engaging in work activities during family time. What that ultimately leads to, though, is trouble at work for both spouses. So, whether companies care or dont care about employees being plugged in, those firms need to know that the relationship tension created by their interaction with their employees during non-work hours ultimately leads to work-life trouble.When you contact your employee after hours, recognize that this decision is likely to negatively impact their personal life, creating a negative mood that they are going to carry with them the next day at work.The research behind how technology at work can hurt usResearch has found that mindlessly using technology can negatively impact employees. Our devices are addictive, and when we see our coworkers holding-gesellschaft them in their hands, we feel like theyre too distracted to listen to us. One study found that employees who saw their bosses holding their phones in work interactions felt snubbed by them and said that they did not trust their boss to support them.This study takes that research one step further, showing us how technology at work can impact both professional and personal relationships.When you bring your work home with you, the decision will not only affect you, it may professionally affect your partner as well.The bottom lineLooking at your phone at home in front of your spouse can signal to your partner that your phone is the most important relationship in the room.This article was originally published on January 12, 2018.You might also enjoyNew neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happyStrangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds10 lessons from nesthkchen Franklins daily schedule that will double your productivityThe worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs10 habits of mentally strong peopleStudy Your partners cell phone use might be dragging down your careerYour spouse answering his bosss call at home could be wrecking your career.A new study in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology found that a spouses cell phone use at home can lead to a lower sense of job performance and satisfaction for their partner.Study Smartphone use during family time leads to poorer job performanceThe study surveyed 344 married couples who worked full-time about their mobile phone use. The partners who watched their spouses use a smart devices during family time at home reported lower job satisfaction and rated themselves as weaker performers at work.So why does our partners phone scrolling impact us at work?Ladders is now on SmartNewsDownload the SmartNews app and add the Ladders channel to read the latest career news and advice wherever you go.The study suggested that using smartphones during family time created relationship tension that spills over to work outcomes for the spouse in the form of reduced job satisfaction and performance.What employers can doThe researchers suggest that employers can avoid productivity and employee engagement losses by keeping their professional interactions to work hours.Its really no surprise that conflict was created when a spouse is using a mobile device at home, Wayne Crawford, one of the studys authors, said. Theyre sometimes engaging in work activities during family time. What that ultimately leads to, though, is trouble at work for both spouses. So, whether companies care or dont care about employees being plugged in, those firms need to know that the relationship tension created by their inter action with their employees during non-work hours ultimately leads to work-life trouble.When you contact your employee after hours, recognize that this decision is likely to negatively impact their personal life, creating a negative mood that they are going to carry with them the next day at work.The research behind how technology at work can hurt usResearch has found that mindlessly using technology can negatively impact employees. Our devices are addictive, and when we see our coworkers holding them in their hands, we feel like theyre too distracted to listen to us. One study found that employees who saw their bosses holding their phones in work interactions felt snubbed by them and said that they did not trust their boss to support them.This study takes that research one step further, showing us how technology at work can impact both professional and personal relationships.When you bring your work home with you, the decision will not only affect you, it may professionally affect your partner as well.The bottom lineLooking at your phone at home in front of your spouse can signal to your partner that your phone is the most important relationship in the room.