> you are at a disadvantage if you are not. Are you? If you want to become a manager and director of engineering or something then you probably need to sign u

> you are at a disadvantage if you are not. Are you? If you want to become a manager and director of engineering or something then you probably need to sign up for checking your e-mail all the time. If you're an IC and want to stay an IC you'd probably do better to make yourself indispensable by learning the codebase you're working on and becoming an expert. Which will be a lot easier if you're uninterrupted with mundane details. Also if you're the firefighting person and the person that is easily interruptible then that's what you'll get, so you'll be constantly context switching and won't be able to become the indispensable expert. And if you really want to climb the ladder, like someone else pointed out, you probably want to job hop. You may be at a significant disadvantage by thinking that this is the way that you get rewarded.