• Hyperconnectivity impacts your health

New Year's greetings often mean good health wishes. Technology is fantastic for many reasons, but it also has its share of negative impacts if we don't control it. Hyperconnectivity, excessive use of technology, can therefore have negative effects on your well-being. The constant stimulation generated by digital tools stresses your brain enormously and can affect your mental health, in particular.

Your physical postures during your online sessions can also cause your body to suffer. I am thinking, among other things, of Tech Neck syndrome, which can cause pain in the shoulders, cervical spine and back.

• Your behavior around screens can harm your social relationships

I remember a meeting where one of my managers at the time picked up his phone to answer an email. He immediately stopped paying attention to my colleague's presentation. He wasted our time by asking us to repeat what we had just said. In addition to being counterproductive, this gesture was interpreted as very disrespectful and irritated everyone.

How you manage screens in your community can impact your social relationships in the long term, whether at work or in your relationship.

• Uncontrolled digital distractions can ruin your productivity

Digital distractions, which I mentioned in my article on digital procrastination, sometimes invite us to inefficient behaviors at work. The average person will lose 56 minutes of productive time in a workday because of their cell phone.

Poor management of tools can cause significant financial losses for businesses. According to a study by Rescue Time , a company could lose, on average, up to $28,209 per employee annually due to poor email and chat management.

• Work-family balance at risk

“Maybe urgent”, “Wait, a message from a colleague” or even “I’m waiting for an answer”… These are some pretexts that had become common in my daily life at a certain point in my life. I used these short sentences to justify (and not get told off) the processing of my professional communications in the middle of a family meal, for example. After a few months, I was out of breath and stressed. I finally resigned…

According to a study by Léger conducted in July 2022, 87% of employees surveyed say that work-family balance impacts (WFC) their satisfaction and motivation at work. According to the same survey, 56% of respondents would change jobs for better WFC measures.

Establishing digital well-being in your company enables healthy performance by supporting the work-life balance of your teams.

Better mastering technology also means valuing periods of letting go and disconnecting.

Where to start?

• Observe your behaviors and those of your teams with neutrality: What are the points to improve? Do you need help?

• Set a (SMART) goal by putting a plan in place to act on your observations, one step at a time.