With rising concerns about workplace burnout, many companies are promoting "digital downtime" policies where employees are encouraged to fully disconnect from work-related communications during evenings and weekends. However, HR departments suspect there is a gap between employees' stated commitment to disconnecting and their actual digital behavior. Researchers plan to investigate this by asking employees to complete a weekly self-report diary documenting the exact number of times they check work emails outside of contracted hours.
Outline one thing that may lower the usefulness of the findings from this study.
276 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Debates, covering Nature/nurture, Freewill/determinism, Reductionism/holism, Individual/situational explanations, Usefulness of research, Ethical considerations, Conducting socially sensitive research, and Psychology as a science. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.