5 ms·
I work at a company where I got in minor strife on my first project for answering emails an hour after leaving work. This year I took a three week vacation to
by jacques_chester 11y ago
I work at a company where I got in minor strife on my first project for answering emails an hour after leaving work.
This year I took a three week vacation to the far side of the planet. Didn't check email for 3 weeks. Nobody minded.
I tell new employees working with me not to add work email to their phones. If they're at work they can use the machines, out of hours, they're not at work, so why are they checking email?
So something like "sometimes I have a weekend without work email" is frankly foreign to me.
Edit: "anathema" is thesaurus abuse.
- shaftoe 11y agoThat's abnormal for any place I'm aware of. There's something between "zero contact outside work hours" and a sweatshop. I don't work at Google, Amazon, or on the west coast.
- jacques_chester 11y agoI work for Pivotal Labs in NYC. It's abnormally better than anywhere else I've worked. Zero contact outside work hours is the norm for Pivots; though as an Australian I don't find it to be such an incredible concept. If that sounds good, drop me a line, we're hiring.
- lobster_johnson 11y agoIt's normal for parts of Europe (where I am from). You're expected to work during work hours, and your own time is highly respected. It's normal to ignore colleagues who try to reach you for work stuff after work.
- ubernostrum 11y agoThere are countries in Europe where it's actually a serious legal violation to require an employee to even check their work email past set working hours.