Stop weekend emails, C4 tells bosses

CHANNEL 4 is cracking down on weekend emails sent by managers to help its staff combat the Sunday night blues.

A report for the Gogglebox broadcaster recommended that they should stop sending work messages outside normal office hours to avoid giving workers the “Sunday scaries”. Instead, bosses will be encouraged to give workers weekly to-do lists to be completed by Friday, in the hope of protecting staff from feeling glum about workloads.

A survey of 650 media industry staff, including some of Channel 4’s 900-strong workforce, found that a majority “experience energy dips on Sunday evenings”, which left them feeling miserable.

One unnamed staffer quoted in the report carried out by Exeter University said: “Sunday never feels like a day off. There’s always too much preparation for the following week.

“Myself and most of my friends get the Sunday night dread. It’s an awful feeling.”

Kirstin Furber, the channel’s chief people officer, said: “We’ll suggest that managers speak to their teams to ask them what would help them be at their best on a Monday.”