Barry Hand

So you’ve prob­a­bly been out of the office this week, work­ing from home or miss­ing some work hours with the cold snap hit­ting Ire­land. You’ve prob­a­bly missed meet­ings and projects are delayed, but here’s an idea — How about not send­ing work emails this weekend?

How guilty of this are you?, because I am, despite hav­ing been on the receiv­ing end a few times. One of my old man­agers had this habit of 2am Sat­ur­day night email rants, while another would always send a bar­rage of requests at 6pm on a Fri­day (we fin­ished at 5pm).

From Tim Sanders blog, His Rule #6 is Don’t send an email to some­one at a time you wouldn’t phone them, and only send inside office hours as it’s not fair on oth­ers, increas­ing Cor­po­rate Guilt Complex

Here’s the snip­pet in full

Click to play: Email Eti­quette Rule #6

Tough love, you need to man­age your work­load and email at a pro­fes­sional time.