Not a confession, but is it unprofessional to send emails late at night (before midnight)? I tend to do that quite alot because of my work and im just wondering if i should continue doing this or not

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EVERYBODY please stop doing this or switch to delayed send immediately. Here’s why bad:

* Downline - it fosters a toxic work culture of never being able to disconnect. Even if you tell your direct report “I don’t expect you to answer” they are ALWAYS going to at least stop what they are doing and look at your email as soon as they get it, and PROBABLY respond because that is how power dynamics work and they want to keep their job and stay in good favor.

Upline - it tells your superiors that you are completely okay with always being ‘on call’ and answering emails no matter what time it is. It basically sets you up for potential power abuse by higher ups.

Peers - If you send and respond to emails at 11pm it creates a toxic company wide expectation that your peers feel they must now meet to be seen as a good employee since this behavior is now the status quo. It basically opens the flood gates for anyone who does not condone email after hours to now be subject to receiving them by the higher ups.

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To be completely honest I am too lazy to read up on the pros and cons of foreign laws. Like all big sweeping laws they probably have a bunch of holes that weren’t thought through when they wrote it. You are French so you know 1000x more than I do about it.

My point isn’t about the specific details of the law (which I am admittedly ignorant of), but rather WHY a society would even feel that they needed a law like this. The on/off boundaries of modern work have become so perverse from the “clock in, clock out” mentality of work in the 20th century that if there is not a correction, either socially, legally, economically, etc. it seems inevitable that after hours communication becomes completely accepted which is a very slippery slope and presents documented risk to both human beings and a company’s bottom line.

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As long as you don’t expect people to respond until work hours, I don’t see a problem with it.

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Of course i don't expect anyone to respond im just an analyst 😂

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Feel free to fact check this as it's been a while since I read this, but a study was conducted apparently that showed when people receive work emails, they get a micro-burst of stress in the form of cortisol.

I'm firmly of the opinion that the emails should have a purpose if they are going out late, otherwise leave it as a draft until the next morning. I've had plenty of times when I have a client deadline so the email rule doesn't apply to those instances to me personally as it's expected.

This is more something you should get with your team as some might prefer it and others might get that cortisol kick late at night and start thinking about work and lose sleep. You won't know until you ask.

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Delay send to morning.

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I give you 50% bonus for that comment.

I’m a newly promoted director with all of my team in my time zone. I do not send emails before 8am or after 6pm and explicitly encourage my team to follow my lead. If I am working outside of those hours, I use Outlook’s delayed send feature.

I recently questioned an analyst who sent me something at 3am as to why. It turned out to have been a computer glitch, but I was clear that, outside of emergencies, I will be more concerned than impressed by after hour emails.

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Depends. Are you sending to people you are leading, to your leaders or both? Some mailboxes also have delay send features one can use.

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Ask them what their comm preference is. You can’t read their minds.

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Nope. You do you.

Do delay send!!! It’s great. Unless you want them to know you’re working late (I do that sometimes)

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