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Depends on your position and motivation. I myself am always reachable and read my emails day and night. I enjoy being involved with my company just as others en

by Hermel 3y ago

Depends on your position and motivation. I myself am always reachable and read my emails day and night. I enjoy being involved with my company just as others enjoy checking their personal emails every hour.

sledgehammers 3y ago
You are welcome to do as you please. As a collective, we need to acknowledge the burnout epidemic. People need to have the honest freedom to be offline, without any social or business pressure. There's more to life than emails and a corporation that is free to fire you at any point.
- deleted 3y ago
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- lo_zamoyski 3y ago
  Not to mention that, this can translate into neglect of one's duties, such as one's duties toward family, duties that, broadly, have higher priority than the wants or even needs of an employer.
- soupfordummies 3y ago
  >>You are welcome to do as you please. Personally, I wouldn't even go that far. Some choosing to give up their personal life in exchange for always-on work life push the needle into normalization for the rest of us that DON'T choose that.
  - smabie 3y ago
    You're suggesting that some people shouldn't be allowed to work harder than others?
    - soupfordummies 3y ago
      Good question. Not necessarily, but I think the crux of your question w/r/t my statement is the distinction between "workaholic" type behavior and "working harder". Would I suggest that a company shouldn't ALLOW it's FT/exempt employees to work over, say, 45hrs/week? Hell yes! Mandated work-life balance sounds great.
  - MandieD 3y ago
    Kind of like how social mores and corporate policies against supervisors having romantic relationships with their underlings protect not only employees who do not want to be pressured to date their managers, but also the colleagues of an employee who otherwise would try to get an edge by sleeping with the boss.
le-mark 3y ago
That’s fine you do you and all. But I hope everyone is aware that normalizing this behavior is toxic af. This article did make me realize how chill my current boss and team are, I don’t give work a thought during off hours which is really nice.
- d0gsg0w00f 3y ago
  It's not really "normalization". It's just I want to do better than everyone else so I make it a point to do more.
  - le-mark 3y ago
    Doing more is rarely “doing better”. In fact it’s often worse.
maerF0x0 3y ago
> I enjoy being involved with my company... And you're probably subconsciously aware that it's a dopamine trap[1]. Probably the greatest fallacy of our time is that just because you enjoy something equates with it's good for you (or "if it feels good do it"). I super enjoy a taco bell run at 11PM even after I've hit my TDEE. Notice how that sentence is almost identical in structure, underlying point, and absurdity, to the sentence "I enjoy checking my email at 11PM even after I've logged 8 hours that day". [1]: https://blog.superhuman.com/how-to-stop-checking-your-email/#:~:text=Your%20brain%20rewards%20you%20with,that%20same%20rush%20of%20dopamine https://blog.superhuman.com/how-to-stop-checking-your-email/....

by Hermel 3y ago

sledgehammers 3y ago

You are welcome to do as you please. As a collective, we need to acknowledge the burnout epidemic. People need to have the honest freedom to be offline, without any social or business pressure. There's more to life than emails and a corporation that is free to fire you at any point.

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lo_zamoyski 3y ago
Not to mention that, this can translate into neglect of one's duties, such as one's duties toward family, duties that, broadly, have higher priority than the wants or even needs of an employer.
soupfordummies 3y ago
>>You are welcome to do as you please. Personally, I wouldn't even go that far. Some choosing to give up their personal life in exchange for always-on work life push the needle into normalization for the rest of us that DON'T choose that.
- smabie 3y ago
  You're suggesting that some people shouldn't be allowed to work harder than others?
  - soupfordummies 3y ago
    Good question. Not necessarily, but I think the crux of your question w/r/t my statement is the distinction between "workaholic" type behavior and "working harder". Would I suggest that a company shouldn't ALLOW it's FT/exempt employees to work over, say, 45hrs/week? Hell yes! Mandated work-life balance sounds great.
- MandieD 3y ago
  Kind of like how social mores and corporate policies against supervisors having romantic relationships with their underlings protect not only employees who do not want to be pressured to date their managers, but also the colleagues of an employee who otherwise would try to get an edge by sleeping with the boss.

le-mark 3y ago

That’s fine you do you and all. But I hope everyone is aware that normalizing this behavior is toxic af. This article did make me realize how chill my current boss and team are, I don’t give work a thought during off hours which is really nice.

d0gsg0w00f 3y ago
It's not really "normalization". It's just I want to do better than everyone else so I make it a point to do more.
- le-mark 3y ago
  Doing more is rarely “doing better”. In fact it’s often worse.

maerF0x0 3y ago

> I enjoy being involved with my company... And you're probably subconsciously aware that it's a dopamine trap[1]. Probably the greatest fallacy of our time is that just because you enjoy something equates with it's good for you (or "if it feels good do it"). I super enjoy a taco bell run at 11PM even after I've hit my TDEE. Notice how that sentence is almost identical in structure, underlying point, and absurdity, to the sentence "I enjoy checking my email at 11PM even after I've logged 8 hours that day". [1]: https://blog.superhuman.com/how-to-stop-checking-your-email/#:~:text=Your%20brain%20rewards%20you%20with,that%20same%20rush%20of%20dopamine https://blog.superhuman.com/how-to-stop-checking-your-email/....