Are you someone who likes to start their working day on the commute?
If you work in an office, replying to emails outside of contracted hours is nothing new... in fact, it's almost common practice.
While you have no obligation to reply, many people choose to do so in order to get a head-start on their workload.
However, in good news for those who do use the journey to work to get a jump on their work emails, a new study says it should be factored into their actual working hours.
The research comes from the University of the West of England, and it showed that 54% of survey participants using WiFi on trains were doing so to send work e-mails.
The BBC reported that the study examined over 5,000 passengers as they commuted in London.
Researcher Dr Juliet Jain said that the advancement of technology had caused a "blurring of boundaries," between work and home life, which now extends to the commute.
"How do we count that time? Do workplace cultures need to change?" Jain asked.
She discussed the difficulty of monitoring such a thing, saying: "There's a real challenge in deciding what constitutes work."
On the other hand, business leaders have recognised the difficulties and warned about the possibility of damaging productivity if the line between work-life and home-life became too blurred.
Jamie Kerr, of the Institute of Directors, said: "This increasing flexibility has the potential to radically shift the work-life balance for the better - but it also leaves open the door to stress and lower productivity."
