Look at it from a different perspective - you're sending a message "I'm on vacation, but I've found few minutes and I'm checking in to help". Other team members

Look at it from a different perspective - you're sending a message "I'm on vacation, but I've found few minutes and I'm checking in to help". Other team members now may feel obliged to do the same, because, well, we are social animals and try to blend in to a group by behaving similarly. Give it a year or two and suddenly the line between vacation and work is not so clear to anyone anymore. If you don't have anything to do, is it really that work is the only thing you can occupy yourself with while you're on vacation?