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Digital Detox

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Mirbabaie, Milad, Stieglitz, Stefan, Marx, Julian·2022·Business & Information Systems Engineering
DOI 10.1007/s12599-022-00747-xPMC PMC8862700
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The increasing use of information technology (IT) has a pervasive impact on society, including the world of work and its boundaries. Individual professionals, and knowledge workers in particular, are exposed to digital devices during the bulk of their working hours (Orlikowski and Scott 2016 ). In addition, persuasively designed social media and digital entertainment applications occupy the leisure time of an unprecedented number of people. A recent study revealed that 33.1 million Germans use the Internet “multiple times a day” , and 11 million even state to use it “constantly, almost the whole time” (Statista 2020 ). Scholarship clearly suggests that this compounded screen time can entail severe consequences to the wellbeing of individuals (Pflügner et al. 2020a ). In fact, using IT can lead to technostress, which is defined as “ any negative impact on attitudes, thoughts, behaviors, or body physiology that is caused either directly or indirectly by technology ” (Weil and Rosen 1997, p. 5). Technostress constitutes a pressing social issue, especially with regards to changes in work-life boundaries, potentiated by the COVID-19 pandemic (Thomas et al. 2020 ). According to a study conducted in 2019, 86 percent of participants claimed that the inability to switch off devices after regular working hours has a negative effect on employee wellbeing (Stewart 2020 ). The result is a personal feeling of being overwhelmed by communication content and interpersonal online connections, which negatively affects work and private life alike (Gui and Büchi 2019 ).

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  • Regularity-versus-scheduling-autonomy tension connects to techno-invasion of technostress and digital detox because activities regularly required by the platform blur boundaries between work and [cut off].

    “Regularity-versus-scheduling-autonomy tension connects to the ‘techno-invasion of technostress’ (Adam et al. 2017, p. 280) and ‘digital detox’ (Mirbabaie et al. 2022, p. 239) because the activities regularly required by the platform (Arriagada and Ibáñez 2020) blur the boundaries between work and”

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Authors
Mirbabaie, M., Stieglitz, S., & Marx, J.
Affiliations
  • Paderborn University (DE)
  • University of Duisburg-Essen (DE)
Corresponding author
Mirbabaie, Milad
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Venue
Business & Information Systems Engineering
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2022-02-22
Volume
64
Issue
2
Pages
239-246
ISSN
  • 1867-0202 (ISSN-L)
  • 2363-7005
DOI
10.1007/s12599-022-00747-x
PMC
PMC8862700
OpenAlex
W4213317846
Cited by
61
References
3
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2026: 16 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 6
FWCI
9.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Business & Information Systems Engineering (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Journal of the Association for Information Systems (submittedVersion)
  • Universitätsbibliographie, Universität Duisburg-Essen (submittedVersion)
  • Econstor (Econstor) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Universität Paderborn
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Technostress in Professional Settings
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Personal Information Management and User Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
Keywords
digital detox, technostress, work-life boundaries, screen time, employee well-being, knowledge workers, COVID-19 pandemic, social media use, information technology use

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