App-based self-trainings targeting strain recovery and their effect on concentration.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many knowledge workers reported concentration problems. This can be seen as critical as concentration is an important indicator for both cognitive wellbeing and occupational success. Drawing on the load theory of selective attention, we argue that concentration problems can be caused by the strain workers experienced during the pandemic.

Strain, loss of time, or even gain? A systematic review of technology-based work extending and its ambiguous impact on wellbeing, considering its frequency and duration.

Especially in knowledge-intensive professions, workers engage in work-related communication and access digital work content outside of working hours. Scientific research on technology-based work extending has flourished in recent decades, but yielded inconclusive results about its relationship with workers' wellbeing and focused on different temporal characteristics of the behaviour. Consequently, in this article, we address the question of whether different temporal characteristics of technology-based work extending, such as the frequency and duration of the behaviour, may have different consequences for workers' wellbeing.