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This study is the first to determine the impact of e-mail interruptions on work tasks by observing employees, and presents a method to determine e-mail addiction.

E-mail interruptions have a negative time impact upon employees and show that both interrupt handling and recovery time exist. A typical task takes one third longer than undertaking a task with no e-mail interruptions.

The mental health of individuals living with indebtedness has become a recent concern for the health and financial services sectors. However, no systematic reviews have so far been conducted.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the evidence on the extent to which personal debt impacts on mental health, and mental health on personal debt.

To date, few, if any, academic studies have been done that assess the impact of social media on the use of market research techniques.

Social media have reduced the effectiveness of traditional market research techniques. Marketers can overcome that effect by employing some of the social media related techniques that have become available. The purpose of the study is to investigate the use of social media as a new investigative tool in marketing research.