Not in the Commodores but working on the Nightshift...
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Situation is I am a lawyer and I typically work 9-6ish, subject to clients' needs.
On occasion I have a catch up session and after the kids have gone to bed I'll have a late night and work through til 2am (sometimes later) to clear the decks.
Normally I'll use the delayed delivery function in Outlook and stack up my outbox ready to send at 8am rather than have emails going out in the small hours.
Interested in views on sending emails in the middle of the night!
On the one hand, I expect some clients appreciate it as a sign of commitment to getting a job done but on the other hand, I can't help but feel that emails sent late at night make it look like you can't manage your workload and/or like you might be too tired to function properly and give proper advice.
On occasion I have a catch up session and after the kids have gone to bed I'll have a late night and work through til 2am (sometimes later) to clear the decks.
Normally I'll use the delayed delivery function in Outlook and stack up my outbox ready to send at 8am rather than have emails going out in the small hours.
Interested in views on sending emails in the middle of the night!
On the one hand, I expect some clients appreciate it as a sign of commitment to getting a job done but on the other hand, I can't help but feel that emails sent late at night make it look like you can't manage your workload and/or like you might be too tired to function properly and give proper advice.
R56Cooper said:
Interested in views on sending emails in the middle of the night!
It’s fine with me and tbh I dont know why some people/companies make a big deal about it.There’s no obligation on the recipient to even check let alone reply immediately and does it really make a difference if the “sent at...” says 8am rather than 2am?I've never thought about how it looks to clients, to be honest. I'll send emails at whatever time of day or night I need/want to.
Granted it's a different scenario as clients are across the globe in my case, but do your clients still expect that everything happens in normal office hours these days?
Granted it's a different scenario as clients are across the globe in my case, but do your clients still expect that everything happens in normal office hours these days?
Countdown said:
It’s fine with me and tbh I dont know why some people/companies make a big deal about it.There’s no obligation on the recipient to even check let alone reply immediately and does it really make a difference if the “sent at...” says 8am rather than 2am?
Problem is, some people feel obligated to read/reply as soon as they receive it and refuse to turn their phones off as a result. Some of those people will then complain about being stressed and overworked (even if they've been told to turn their phones off at night) which is a HR ball ache when they go off sick. For that reason, because recipients are not always willing or able to turn their phones off, my employer discourages out of hours emails. I believe they banned out of hours emails in France in 2017 (the right to disconnect).
Before I took early retirement in September 2019, I worked in education. During my teaching career, I had a couple of serious bouts of stress related illness, characterised by working all the hours I possibly could. Once I identified the late working as being a trigger, whenever I received emails from colleagues sent after 11pm, I would take the time to chat and check their welfare. In most cases, they were grateful that I’d asked and in one case the person broke down because she was struggling. We spent a few hours discussing ways to reduce workload and not reinventing the wheel every time she was delivering a new topic, sharing resources made by myself or other staff.
It doesn’t matter which area you work in, everyone is entitled to a decent work/life balance. If a work colleague of mine was regularly sending late emails, I would be a little concerned that they may be overdoing it.
It doesn’t matter which area you work in, everyone is entitled to a decent work/life balance. If a work colleague of mine was regularly sending late emails, I would be a little concerned that they may be overdoing it.
I'd leave sending the emails until normal daytime hours.
The reason being that my phone will ping on the bedside table with a notification of an email at whatever time of night it happens to be.
PayPal are brilliant at sending automated emails at half two in the morning, there is no need for it!!!
The reason being that my phone will ping on the bedside table with a notification of an email at whatever time of night it happens to be.
PayPal are brilliant at sending automated emails at half two in the morning, there is no need for it!!!
Matt_E_Mulsion said:
I'd leave sending the emails until normal daytime hours.
The reason being that my phone will ping on the bedside table with a notification of an email at whatever time of night it happens to be.
PayPal are brilliant at sending automated emails at half two in the morning, there is no need for it!!!
how dare they! why dont you write a letter to their headquarter in the U.S. and....oh, wait,The reason being that my phone will ping on the bedside table with a notification of an email at whatever time of night it happens to be.
PayPal are brilliant at sending automated emails at half two in the morning, there is no need for it!!!
Matt_E_Mulsion said:
I'd leave sending the emails until normal daytime hours.
The reason being that my phone will ping on the bedside table with a notification of an email at whatever time of night it happens to be.
PayPal are brilliant at sending automated emails at half two in the morning, there is no need for it!!!
Turn it off?The reason being that my phone will ping on the bedside table with a notification of an email at whatever time of night it happens to be.
PayPal are brilliant at sending automated emails at half two in the morning, there is no need for it!!!
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