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Eek -- this seems to be a step in the wrong direction from work/life balance.
by benburleson 7y ago
Eek -- this seems to be a step in the wrong direction from work/life balance.
- paulie_a 7y agoDon't use it after hours. You can also ignore slack if it's after 5. (or whatever your expected hours are)
- benburleson 7y agoThat's easy to say. The reality is for most of us, when we're tagged on some issue, our reaction is to at least check it out and assess the priority, etc.
- peruvian 7y agoThen turn notifications off. Depends on your workplace culture, but I receive no work-related notifications or emails after work hours and it's fine.
- paulie_a 7y agoIt's really easy to do too. notifications should be turned off outside of work hours. If it is a major emergency I expect a call. Stuff like this isn't ruining work life balance. They employee is by engaging and allowing the behavior outside of work
- bassman9000 7y agoThis. Uninstalled all my MS work apps (for other reasons, mainly the fact that it gives work admins permission to nuke my entire phone), and now I have a proper cut-off time. Not necessarily 5-6PM, but when I decide it's over, it's over.
- paulie_a 7y agoI don't mind going above and beyond under extreme circumstances. But I'm not letting a company take over my phone. They can provide me one in that case. And I'm still going to pay little attention to it after normal work hours. Extremely important issues don't come up that frequently. So I'll be the judge of whether I need to deal with it now or it can wait and be on the docket first thing in the morning
- monkey_slap 7y agoThis has been top-of-mind since we started on the app. We're heavy users of the app ourselves and are prioritized WLB features already. The last thing I want to see is our app used an excuse for people to work more. Instead, my hope is we can help people work more efficiently on their own terms.
- wheelerwj 7y agoHow do you justify working on your phone as anything other than an invasion on your WLB? What scenario do you anticipate people using this app? In the middle of meetings with other people? While driving? While sitting in the cafeteria on their lunch break?
- monkey_slap 7y agoI intend the app to be another option for how to get things done. I've been using it the last few months to manage building the app itself, and being a remote worker, it's freed me up to be a lot more mobile in where/how I do that work. One of the most important next things we can build are more controls in when/how you can be reached (e.g. setting working hours).