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These points are spot on, but I also believe these are common sense things everyone knows. The issue is that its extremely difficult to detach from the digital

These points are spot on, but I also believe these are common sense things everyone knows. The issue is that its extremely difficult to detach from the digital world and many jobs require you be available at any time. A a previous job (they named themselves after a fruit) I couldn't even think about turning my phone off. I was pretty much on call 24/7. Companies are global, and there are always problems to deal with and any time of the day.

l33tbro 11y ago
Yikes, kudos for enduring that. I've actually started to turn my phone off at night, and it's actually crazy the feeling of relief I get from that small action. It's like there's some invisible unbilical cord between myself and that device.
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stuff4ben 11y ago
Yep, my company has the same tendencies. Some folks I work with have their phones configured for company email which I refuse to do. When I'm home, I'm home and it's the only time I have with my family. When they're all asleep and the wife is watching her netflix, I'll usually jump on the VPN but turn off email and IM so I can get real work done. Most of my days are sadly filled with meetings and email, the 30-60 minutes of extra work I occasionally do at home does wonders for my productivity.
- thorin 11y ago
  While I understand your pov,why don't you flag to your boss if your feel you are spending too long on meetings and emails and find time during your actual working day to do that work. I'm a family man too and I've made a decision that any evening work except emergencies will be stuff I enjoy such as researching a new technology experimenting in code watching tech videos or reading tutorials not corporate "work"
neltnerb 11y ago
I don't think everyone knows these things; particularly tricks like "don't start a new task right before you leave" took me probably a decade to figure out on my own. But I agree that disconnecting digitally is hard for a lot of jobs if you work on a project rather than small tasks especially, where half the work is planning, logistics, and coordination. I definitely sleep so much better putting my phone into airplane mode about fifteen minutes before I want to go to bed though. That certainly seems fair all around, and means when I inevitably wake up in the middle of the night I don't see a pile of unread emails to deal with and get tempted to read them while I should be sleeping so I can be productive the next day!

l33tbro 11y ago

Yikes, kudos for enduring that. I've actually started to turn my phone off at night, and it's actually crazy the feeling of relief I get from that small action. It's like there's some invisible unbilical cord between myself and that device.

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stuff4ben 11y ago

Yep, my company has the same tendencies. Some folks I work with have their phones configured for company email which I refuse to do. When I'm home, I'm home and it's the only time I have with my family. When they're all asleep and the wife is watching her netflix, I'll usually jump on the VPN but turn off email and IM so I can get real work done. Most of my days are sadly filled with meetings and email, the 30-60 minutes of extra work I occasionally do at home does wonders for my productivity.

thorin 11y ago
While I understand your pov,why don't you flag to your boss if your feel you are spending too long on meetings and emails and find time during your actual working day to do that work. I'm a family man too and I've made a decision that any evening work except emergencies will be stuff I enjoy such as researching a new technology experimenting in code watching tech videos or reading tutorials not corporate "work"

neltnerb 11y ago

I don't think everyone knows these things; particularly tricks like "don't start a new task right before you leave" took me probably a decade to figure out on my own. But I agree that disconnecting digitally is hard for a lot of jobs if you work on a project rather than small tasks especially, where half the work is planning, logistics, and coordination. I definitely sleep so much better putting my phone into airplane mode about fifteen minutes before I want to go to bed though. That certainly seems fair all around, and means when I inevitably wake up in the middle of the night I don't see a pile of unread emails to deal with and get tempted to read them while I should be sleeping so I can be productive the next day!