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My notifications are turned off after work hours, though I will make an exception if I know there is something time-sensitive coming in. You shouldn't be expected to work 24/7.
Set them and forget it. Keep reminding people of your office hours. Remote does not mean 24/7. Set the quiet hours again and stick to it.
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Unless I am specifically hired with the note of being on call, I set hard boundaries. I make it very clear to my executives that I have two separate phones, my work phone goes on silent 30 minutes after I'm off of work until 30 minutes before I start. It is 100% silent on the weekends. In the event that a true emergency happens, they have my personal phone number, and thankfully everybody has respected that. It is only been used once in 3 years.
I do run into the problem where sometimes for my own sanity I will check and answer emails after hours, and that's on me. But I do let them know that because I've done it in the past, that does not set the expectation that I am required to do it in the future. But again, I work with amazing people, and they don't abuse that either. I will even get after hours emails, because that's when it's convenient for them, but they have the note saying please don't do this until tomorrow, because they know sometimes I will do it that same night if I see it.
Find your remote policy. If you clock out and are hourly, then you are not required to respond after hours. However, its different for salary, especially those salary employees who has device reimbursement. They should set digital boundaries with a respond such as "I received your message and will review and respond in the morning. Thank you for understanding our work/life balance."
Just let it be known that you're not going to be answering messages after work hours. Working remotely does not mean you're always on the clock. Setting digital boundaries is just a matter of ignoring those messages and letting them sit until morning. If you keep answering them and dealing with them it's your own fault.
Look into off hours salaries in your contract. I worked for the state of Missouri for 24 years and anytime we received anything as small as a text, phone call or email when we were out of the office {sick, vaycay, or RDO, we were allowed to submit time served for a minimum of 30 minutes. After accumulating so many hours of overtime, the supervisors were told not to do it again if it was not an emergency and could be dealt with on scheduled work days.
I put my phone on auto DND during certain times.
Can you put an Out of office message on? What I used to do was to tell them to contact me on my personal cell number which is listed in the company directory. I didn’t post it in the OOO message to avoid outside folks from havin it
Remote work often creates the expectation of being “always on,” and constant notifications make it hard to switch off. Quiet hours help, but they only work if the boundary is respected on both sides.
A helpful rule is this: if something is truly urgent, the person will call. Otherwise, it can wait until working hours.
Turning off sound alerts also reduces that feeling of being on red alert.
Digital boundaries aren’t about being unresponsive — they’re about maintaining a healthy, sustainable rhythm at work.
Good question. As an admin I’m expected to jump when told matter whether it’s important that I pay attention and do as told earlier than anyone else in person and position to take notes or minutes without saying anything either
I think the computers have a power button, you can click on it to turn off the computer, and I think the cell phone also have options to turn off notifications.