A bit less extreme, but I put my phone silent mode about 6 months ago and never set it back. I was probably checking it more for the first month to be honest,

A bit less extreme, but I put my phone silent mode about 6 months ago and never set it back. I was probably checking it more for the first month to be honest, but after breaking my own and others expectations of a swift reply I find it much easier to respond at my leisure. Edit: communication at work is expected over internal IM and email, and my previous solution was to not give out my number. I feel this works better. After all, if I'm 3 hours late responding and it was dire I would have been contacted via other means.