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> Everyone who doesn’t check their work email “just one more time” before turning in for the night, please raise your hand. Totally off-topic, but I see this s
by throwaway287391 9y ago
> Everyone who doesn’t check their work email “just one more time” before turning in for the night, please raise your hand.
Totally off-topic, but I see this sort of statement a lot and it's odd to me. It sounds straight out of the early 2000s at the latest. How many people that fall under the workaholic stereotype being portrayed by this kind of article are still deliberately "checking their email" in 2018? Seems to me that anyone who's this attentive to emails pretty much knows the minute they receive one because they get a push notification from either their smartphone or the inbox browser tab they have open.
- tamasnet 9y agoI'm "hourly attentive" to email, or maybe "convenience attentive" if I'm waiting in line or something. For me, turning on notifications for email would eliminate the distinction between email and chat. I understand some people use it that way, but I expect lots of folks keep the distinction.
- throwaway287391 9y agoRight, but you presumably aren't one of the stereotypical anxious busybodies the article is appealing to with the sentence I quoted. Anyone like that wouldn't disable the on-by-default push notifications, I'd assume. What am I missing?
- danenania 9y agoFor a developer there shouldn't normally be a need to check email that often (if good processes are in place), but if you're doing sales, support, fundraising, etc., then seeing and responding to incoming emails quickly can be very important. It's crazy how much difference in conversion rate you can see by responding to a lead in 5 minutes vs. even a few hours, or how much more forgiving customers are of problems when you respond very quickly.