>Almost everyone texts or emails and I’ve never had anyone freak out if I didn’t reply quickly. email/text response time is very much a metric on many employee

>Almost everyone texts or emails and I’ve never had anyone freak out if I didn’t reply quickly. email/text response time is very much a metric on many employee evaluation systems. you might not have gotten anyone to 'freak out', but I guarantee that slow response times will get you lower performance reviews at many establishments. (should it? absolutely not, I am entirely against the practice.)