As the Sr. HR leader in my company, I find it hard to truly disconnect after work or on weekends from the “job”. I am hoping you all will share how you create space for yourself. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.

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If you have your work email on your personal phone or a separate work phone… Silence notifications on your work email on your phone after 6pm. Stop checking email after hours, stop checking your email the second you wake up in the morning.

When you work late (beyond an extra hour) plan a day to take that time back within that working week during working hours. I have the flexibility to come in at 10/11am if I worked until 6/7 the night before, or I log off early on Friday because I have done my 40 hours. If emails come in after 4pm, it can probably wait until the next day.

Nothing is an emergency, we are not saving lives in the corp world. If something was truly dire, they would find a way to get in touch with you.

My biggest piece of advice/mindset you need to get into is- people don’t respect people who don’t respect their own time… if you make yourself endlessly available, people will take advantage of you. The corporate world wants the most of work out of you without paying you more. Salaried jobs are kind of a scam like that…

If you’ve been at the company a long time and have slowly lost your boundaries, you may beed to take small steps backwards and reestablish boundaries. Or if you’re miserable, look for a new job and start fresh.

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Love all of the above recommendations. I’ve had the same issue and one thing that has helped me tremendously (personally and professionally) is setting up the “sleep” setting (under the health settings on iPhone) for a certain timeframe. You won’t receive any notifications, even on the icon of the app. You’ll only know if something was received when you actually open up the app. It’s a mind trick… no visual or audible notifications, and it has really helped me disconnect.

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