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Zach WeinersmithHave you noticed that people are taking weekends seriously? I used to be able to get responses on weekends and now I barely do. It's the greatest development in the history of email and we should never go back.
Louis Ingenthron@ZachWeinersmith The world would be a better place if nobody installed their work email on their phone.
ineiti@ZachWeinersmith I'm not following the crowd: when everybody wrote me emails on the weekend, I only replied on Monday.
Nowadays I write emails on the weekend and wonder why I don't get answers :)
ggdupont@ZachWeinersmith Come to Europe where we also take any kind of time-off (weekend/bank holidays/vacations/parental leave) very seriously.
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Thad@ZachWeinersmith Damn, and me going in to work tomorrow to do a server upgrade.
But yeah, *most* weekends they leave me alone.
Bill@ZachWeinersmith I think we should turn off SMTP for the weekend. Tried to add it to the RFC but it didn't fly.
ProtectYourWP@ZachWeinersmith They're also respecting "work hours" a lot more. When I first started, you could throw a tech question out there any time of day or night and more often than not some other person would see it come in and respond within hours, not days.
Garth Cummings@ZachWeinersmith Sending work emails after hours has been illegal in France since 2016.
Steve Purcell@garthc @ZachWeinersmith not quite: work emails can still be sent at any time, but you have the legal right to not read or respond to them out of hours.
Mat Bowles@sanityinc @garthc @ZachWeinersmith
That makes more sense, I was thinking back to my last office job where my deputy and I worked different shifts and sometimes barely saw each other, if my "work hours" finish at 10pm and she starts at 6am whose are we talking?
So yeah, the right to ignore stuff sent out of hours is really important but the ability to send each other notes or tasks for when they start is also important, thx for clarification
Nic Dafis@ZachWeinersmith I still respond to my students over the weekend, but any work/admin email that arrives after lunchtime Friday gets snoozed until Monday morning.
Greg Kemp@ZachWeinersmith My favorite Slack feature is the ability to schedule messages in the future. If it's not an emergency and it's after-hours where the recipient lives, then I'll schedule delivery for the beginning of their next work day. Taking other peoples' weekends seriously, too.
Max Leibman has moved!@ZachWeinersmith I love it! I do like and often use “send later” features in Outlook and elsewhere, but I very much prefer to just send email whenever I happen to be working and trust the recipients to be adults and only check/respond to work email when they are actually working.
(For my part, I’m often working early in the morning or late at night or on a weekend, but it’s not workaholism; I just keep odd hours. And when the office is closed and I’m *not* working, I ignore work email, too.)
Nick Appleyard@ZachWeinersmith You are still looking for responses on weekends?
Just Jo@ZachWeinersmith Having all work communication go through a VPN that can only be accessed via one specific laptop I have made it a god-damned breeze to leave work at work.
Pete Prodoehl 🍕@ZachWeinersmith The flip side is that I run my own business that operates on nights & weekends (in addition to my normal "regular" full time job) and I sometimes have to wait until Monday to get a response from a client... but also I am mostly okay with that.
Andrew Bartlett@ZachWeinersmith This I hope is a sign of less use of personal devices for work after the BYOD craze, but maybe I am too hopeful.
Mar :🌻@ZachWeinersmith I don't take any day of the week seriously.
Josh Gee@ZachWeinersmith
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Ben Fulton@ZachWeinersmith I've taken to scheduling emails and messages for after the weekends rather than sending them immediately. Can't really avoid sending them because I'll forget.
Björn 🌸 Starkimarm@ZachWeinersmith
I react on work mails and calls only when I'm getting paid for it. So if my company want's me to be on call they have to pay for it.
I react on work mails and calls only when I'm getting paid for it. So if my company want's me to be on call they have to pay for it.
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥@ZachWeinersmith Years ago I was into coaching and so on, and explained to clients how it was best to not check emails unless you were able and willing to respond.
And, important, that sometimes you read an email anyway (say; in the weekend) and it starts nagging in your head if you don't reply immediately. So; write that response. But use delayed sending; send it on Monday morning. This way you put your mind at rest AND educate your clients about your working hours 😊
Justin Derrick@ZachWeinersmith I’ve been startled to discover that co-workers have Teams on their phones, and reply late into the evenings and on weekends. It might just because IT is a 24x7x365 gig, but I was still somewhat dismayed by that idea.