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Managers who stew over work at night show up as worse bosses the next day

Managers who keep dwelling on work at night are worse leaders the next morning. Their teams lose the support and direction a boss should provide

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A lot of managers now clear their inbox after dinner. A day of back-to-back meetings leaves them no other time to do it. Their evenings are the only quiet stretches they have before tomorrow's meetings, so staying plugged feels like the responsible choice.

When management researchers led by the University of Florida's Klodiana Lanaj tracked leaders and the people who report to them day by day, though, the leaders who spent their evenings stewing over work showed up the next morning worn out. Worst of all, their teams noticed. The people who reported to those leaders rated them lower that day on the two things a boss is mostly there for: looking out for people and steering their work.

Managers who keep thinking about their bad day at work well into the evening tend to wake up the........

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