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Time off is Time Off, you are supposed to be relaxing.
Leadership doesnt care. At all.
Ive had people call and attempt to coax me into helping out on a "small, quick, engagement" after Ive already emailed them about PTO, set my OOO message, and added them to a reminder appointment that Im OOO.
My standard response now is that I left both my laptop and KPhone at home since Im travelling and didnt want the risk of leaving them in my/rental car.
What? No way. My work phone is off when I'm on PTO or OOO. I don't even look.
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It’s not black and white but in broad terms, no. I wouldn’t accept that expectation and wouldn’t put that burden on my team either.
The reason it’s not black and white is times like the last week of April for us. That’s EOQ and Fiscal. We’re all available and nobody’s OOO unless it’s something critical. One of the people on my team had her mom end up in the hospital. We broke up her work and sent her off. I’m sure her phone rang and she was copied on emails at all hours but she also knew there was no expectation from our team that she would respond.
I've asked not to be bothered with non important communication ANY time I am off the clock. If it can't wait till I'm back, fine. But my off time is my own. I don't need stress from work following me home.
You give em an inch…they take a mile. Time off is time off. Unless the building is on fire. Maybe be attentive but other than that no.
No, I’m in the wilderness with no connection.
No. It is one of the first things I say on my first day, I do not do anything relating to work when I am away. I make that clear and make sure they understand.
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Nope. I'm really grateful to work with people who also value and respect time off. We truly do not bother each other on PTO unless it's truly urgent, which is incredibly rare. We do still send emails, but the expectation is that it only gets a response if the other person happens to check their email and feels like responding. Otherwise, we just wait til they get back.
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Even if it is an emergency that shouldn't expect anyone to be available when you are out of the office. Although I am sure that it happens at many companies.
Tell them you are going to a remote national park with no service and leave your work devices on airplane mode when you don’t feel like working.
Normally no. If there's some really exceptional circumstance, like you have a personal emergency in the middle of a huge time sensitive unmoveable thing that you are in charge of -- then MAYBE you set up a way to get only the most urgent, undelegatable, unpostponeable questions.
Personally I give my team my personal cell and tell them to text me only if it's urgent, I will not be checking work comms. I trust them, and also they report to me, not vice versa.
I often do check email once in the middle of a weeklong break, just do I don't come home to 1000 messages, but that's my call, not my bosses'.