“The Curse of Off-Hours Email”(Review, Oct. 2) resonates with me. I have a suggestion that I have found to be valuable not only to the recipient but to the sender as well. Often, when we want to contact a colleague about a work matter that isn’t urgent, we nevertheless feel the immediacy to get that information out of our heads and onto a memo, perhaps so we don’t forget it.
This works every time: Schedule a later send. Write the email on, say, a Friday night, as though it is Monday morning and the colleague is opening her...
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“The Curse of Off-Hours Email”(Review, Oct. 2) resonates with me. I have a suggestion that I have found to be valuable not only to the recipient but to the sender as well. Often, when we want to contact a colleague about a work matter that isn’t urgent, we nevertheless feel the immediacy to get that information out of our heads and onto a memo, perhaps so we don’t forget it.
This works every time: Schedule a later send. Write the email on, say, a Friday night, as though it is Monday morning and the colleague is opening her email at her desk. Instead of pushing “send,” choose “schedule send” and pick a day and time for it to be sent. This also has the benefit of allowing the sender to change her mind and delete the email before it is delivered.
Jeanne Tobin
Cleveland
Don’t sweat over the importance of an off-hours email. If it’s really important, they’ll call. But if your boss says, “See me in my office at 3 p.m.,” then you should sweat.
Robert Barrows
San Mateo, Calif.
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2021-10-10 18:43:00Z
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