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I found that it really helps to get my work email off of my personal phone. I don't feel so pressured to respond when I don't see them and actively have to seek out my emails in order to stress about not responding to them, lol.
2hrs of checking email every Sunday night = 104hrs per year you spend working for free. Stop that. Give that time to you and your fam.
Make sure that your work and personal emails are separate, then just not have anything to do with it. Discipline yourself to not answer it after and before work, and especially when you are sick and/or on vacation. See if you can set up an 'out of the office'-like message to turn on when you leave work, and turn it off when you punch in. If you want to look and see what's there, then only scroll down the list, then log off. You might have some anxiety with the worry of being left out, or not up to speed with everyone else, but take a moment for the feeling to pass, then move on. Soon you will be at peace knowing that you need to stop away from work, and this time is yours not theirs. You need this time, and time for mental days and vacations, and stop feeling guilty for taking both.
I've turned off work app notifications after hours, on weekends and while taking PTO, and it has been a game changer. I feel like it also makes me more productive during work hours, because I'm focusing on one thing at once. Highly recommend as a strategy 🙂
Turn your notifications off!
Permanently Schedule “I’m out of office for every weekend“ include in this in the automated response, while identifying when your working hours are . This automated response will notify employees when to expect responses. If you are on salary , have HR clarify if you are being paid overtime to be “on call” for 48 hours during weekends to respond to emails during your off days . Most places will inform staff to stop emailing if they have to pay more for you to do Monday work on the weekends
Set boundaries, respect yourself and your valuable time . Thank God every weekend for everything you have and cherish your family and friends during your rest days.
Close the whole laptop and go outside. Or...remove the work profile from your phone and go outside. Work-life balances can be tricky but this is an easy win.
Offshore work hours start soon so....
Coach them on how to schedule emails and slacks. Its not that hard for them to do.
Respond Monday
I’m in a client service business. It’s nice to be unplugged but scanning a few messages isn’t a huge ask given what is expected. If I wanted a job with no or low pressure I could have that but there are other things I would give up.
Being a senior manager or Partner/director in PA at a national firm level isn’t for the faint of heart. When it gets out of balance then by all means move on but if you stay in the game some level of sacrifice is part of the deal.
Personally I just read the messages but if they require action then I have a decision to make. Most of the time they don’t so I just build it into my work week and provide a reasonable response time and date
I don't feel pressured to respond, but if I have the time, I do. We live in a connected world and if I take a couple of free minutes on a Sunday to lighten my load on Monday, I'll do it and if I'm busy, I'll leave it until Monday. If you want the people who send you those emails on the weekend to know you are engaged, just respond with "I got your email, will get back to you ASAP".
just don't open your email over the weekend?
Create a culture that doesn’t encourage or reward it. Teach folks to use the “delay send” feature. They can do their work on Sunday if they choose, but it shouldn’t show up in anyone’s inbox until Monday morning.
I used to work at Qantas and was on notifications 24x7 for facilities management and project management issues. Don’t have work emails on personal phone now. I ask people to call if genuinely urgent.
Don’t respond until tomorrow. After you get settled tomorrow, send out an email to all those who report to you, as a reminder, that you do not check emails work hours or weekends. If it is a true emergency, they are to call you with specific information about the emergency. This will make your employee’s think twice about contacting you after hours. Nobody wants to call their boss, at anytime.
After work hours or weekends.
I wrote an automation in my iphone to turn on a “not work time” focus during certain hours. Since we are global and I do have my work email and teams on my phone (for my own convenience), and if I hear it go off I can’t help but look and answer, my phone automatically silences those notifications from 5pm-8am weekdays and all weekend. It works great and I can keep all my stuff on my phone. And if I go on vacation, I can use that focus button to easily mute it all during those not-set times.
You just make that choice and stick with it. You don't let guilt, fear, or shame activate you. If you do respond, then give yourself grace/leeway, and don't beat yourself up. But if you do respond, you are setting up a precedent, and it's usually not worth it. Most jobs/employers, "expect" you to give up your life, and work more hours than they are willing to pay for. If you are a good employee, you have nothing to worry about. Those who are bad workers, or a slackers, they are likely already on their radar. And we all know how we "fare" with others. Just "do you."
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Turn off the app notifications for the weekend if it’s going to be on your mind. Set aside the first hour of your Monday morning to tend to it so you can feel that “debt” lifted. 😊
If it's not the expectation then just don't respond. At my firm I think you're supposed to give a quick "will do" and confirm timing if you see it. I love it when people who send Sunday emails qualify that it's not urgent/it's for tomorrow/this week etc
Email off personal phone. Unless the ship is going down, then it can wait until Monday, unless you get paid overtime, then Sunday email reading it is 😁
Set your email settings to automatically switch to "Away" at EOD Fridays till Beginning of Business Mondays.