Does your workplace expect you to always be available via email whether night, weekend, holiday, or ‘normal business hours’? Have you been asked to limit your sending of email to within certain hours? If you get an ‘urgent’ email that’s sent outside of your normal hours, how do you handle it?

If you’re caught up on either side of this great email boundaries debate, this episode is for you. 

In this episode of The Career Rx we’ll discuss:

• The recent push to limit email ‘sending hours’
• What email sending, checking, and replying communicates about boundaries
• How to be sure your intentions are understood and your boundaries are firm, while working at times that work for you

Today we’re talking about the great email debate - should you or should you not send an email outside of “standard” working hours (whatever that means, anyway)?

In this episode, we’ll discuss what “off hours” look like to you, the importance of email boundaries, and whether delaying an email send time is actually helpful.

“I think people ought to be able to send [emails] whenever they want.”- Marjorie Stiegler

In this Episode: 

[0:48] Boundaries in the workplace
[1:50] Only working “normal business hours”
[3:00] Defending your off work hours
[5:40] Getting things done on your own schedule
[7:20] Navigating the work/life balancing act
[9:00] What’s in your email signature?
[10:10] Handling your boundaries - stop apologizing 
[11:40] Tweet me your answer to this question 

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