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I think you can just ask them? “Hey i know you’re probably just ticking stuff off your to do list but it’s disrupting people’s personal time, would you mind waiting for the work week?”
Maybe suggest if they want to tick off their to do list to use email instead and set the send time for the work week.
I wish three weeks of constipation to anyone who does that on a weekend.
“I am signing out of slack for the weekend. I suggest you do the same. Or don’t. But I will not have my notifications on until 8am Monday”
“Hey stop messaging me on the weekend.”
Dont have the app on your phone
Chief
At the CD level can’t you say your team is instituting a new comms policy to respect nonworking hours?
I don’t ask for weekend work. Build it into project schedule so we don’t need to. In house so that is doable. My creative team shouldn’t be expected to work any more than anyone else. I try not to put in more than 9 hours a day myself. I also give comp time if they burn the midnight oil. Take cars of your team.
“Hey if it’s something you need to send over the weekend can you send it to my email? That’s easier to ignore during my downtime”
Chief
Your response on slack:
“What kind of sadist slacks on the weekends? 🤪”
Trust me, everyone on the tread will agree.
Love it! Punctuating it by an emoji or disco sloth will def soften the blow!
Leave them on read.
Rising Star
my boss messaged me today (saturday). i just am not messaging him back.
It’s funny how Slack has been pitched as a productivity tool, but sometimes it actually does the opposite. Having an app on your phone that treats work like a social media app is unhealthy for people’s mental health.
My recommend is to set clear expectations for your team when it comes to work life balance. At the end of the day, every person has a different way of working and that’s totally ok. What you need to do as a manager is to be super clear with your team that you do not expect them to respond to work msgs during the weekend.
It’s simple - don’t have it on your phone
Rising Star
The only thing that can cause my phone to make a noise or otherwise alert me of anything is my spouse trying to get ahold of me. Everything else is set to silent, notifications off, etc. I check it when I need to, which is almost always and often on the weekends. But I do it when I want to, not when someone else wants me to. Its life changing. And nobody complains.
Just sign out. I feel annoyed when I get emails at 2am, but ignore them. No need to ask anyone anything that they are intentionally doing after hours.
What if it’s your boss? Like the boss founder of the agency?
Apparently he somewhat does. He gets to have “free time” on weekends like doing certain edits in the presentation boards that we have to enter lol.
Grow a set and speak to them about it?
I'm clearly asking for resources and approaches so I can do... exactly that? 🥴
I also tell people upfront my forms of communication and how I operate so an expectation is set. If they don’t know my boundaries, how can they respect them?
I don’t even have email on my phone. Slack? Noooo way
Broadly address the fact that weekend work & ignoring DND is not the way of working thats expected or encouraged. If they still don’t get the hint have a 1:1 to say if there’s something urgent to be discussed & they need to address they can write an email & schedule it for Monday morning
Delete the app from your phone, & then casually bring it up at the next internal meeting that you’re not answering work messages or emails over the weekend & to please be mindful of sending those during said time.
Set boundaries that are needed for yourself and colleagues.