If there are crumbs on your desk from countless lunches spent responding to emails and attending to other job-related responsibilities, it may be time to clean up and take a step back.
New research suggests that detaching from work during a lunch break can boost energy and help you to better respond to the demands of the day.
That’s the message behind a new study that finds early-career doctors -- and the rest of us -- can be better at our jobs if we simply set aside as little as 30 minutes a day for some “me” time.
The alternative, the study finds, is a scenario in which the patient may suffer.
The study, conducted by University of Florida and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga researchers and published in Psychology, Health & Medicine Journal’s third issue in 2016, found that active recovery activities like exercising and volunteering can help employees recover quickly and respond better to their jobs’ demands.
Researchers focused on the work and rest patterns of 38 early-career physicians from a teaching hospital in the Southeast. Of the participants, 63.2 percent were male and the median age was 29. The typical physician can average an 80-hour work week, leaving little opportunity for leisure and sleep.
[For more of this story, written by Michelle Neeley, go to http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2...rker-study-shows.php]
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