Technology creates stress: report

Working women in the UK think new technology makes their lives even more hectic, according to ninemsn.

"The advent of mobile phones and email have left women feeling under greater pressure to juggle work and home commitments, leaving less time for themselves.

As a result, a growing number of career women are suffering from what has been dubbed "frantic life syndrome".

Research conducted for Good Housekeeping magazine found 30 per cent of working females had regularly been driven to exhaustion by work and home commitments.

Twenty-nine per cent of working women said they could not live without their mobile phone for more than a day, although the figure soared to 56 per cent among 16 to 24-year-olds.

However 12 per cent complain the phones meant "my life is no longer my own", while 10 per cent said having a mobile meant their employer regularly called them with out-of-hours work queries."

emily | 10:30 AM | Health Issues and SMS Alerts |
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