Do you guys respond to emails and phone calls over the weekend or have you been able to put boundaries in place wit your boss?

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Boundaries set. No nights, weekends or holidays unless there’s an urgent matter I know about before I clock off. And then I’ll help after hours.

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absolutely not. did it once and then couldn’t escape because it became the expectation.

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No I do not look at email after 6pm on Friday at the latest and don’t have Teams/Outlook notifications on my phone

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Phone calls on the weekend? No.

If I want to answer email over the weekend I will just to catch up or start a little ahead on the next week, but it’s on my initiative.

I don’t expect my team to respond to email on the weekend even if I’m sending it and unless I’m on a pitch or some other extremely urgent business, my superiors don’t expect weekend responses.

If you send that email, schedule it for Monday at 9 am so no one will look over the weekend.

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