Any advice on dealing with “will do” or “confirming receipt” culture? Recently lateraled and the new firm is obsessed with appearing super responsive, unfortunately at the expense of actually being able to sit still for 5 min without responding “will do” or telling someone I’ll “review and revert”. I’ve always tried to set time aside at night or early AM, but email traffic stays steady until midnight, sometimes later.

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My personal rule of thumb is responding “will do” within the hour m-f 9-6pm. The weekends very, if I know we’re closing a deal I check it more often but if not make 3-4x. I’m a rising 3rd at a V25 on the west coast. This was also my go to for the east coast firm I worked at before lateraling.

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Has someone talked to you about it yet? If not don’t sweat it. If it’s really urgent they’ll follow up

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Ask them the following - if i was a drafting an important brief for you, or was on a phone call with you, would you like me to ignore all that so i can respond to every single email that i get within 15 minutes? Oh, no? Then fuck off.

I only do that during business hours or if it's an urgent matter. Exercise your discretion regarding when someone needs an immediate acknowledgment. If someone acts offended that you did not respond fast enough after 6 pm on a non urgent matter, then you know to avoid that person like the plague.

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