Merlin Mann on being unplugged, and the allways-available culture
Merlin Mann writes about the allways-available culture.
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Email is not the problem, America. The culture around email (and phones and meetings and SMS) is the real culprit. And we’re not going to change perverse electronic culture by nailing theses to a door or by social-engineering the crap out of our employees.
Plus, I’ll just bet you, dimes to donuts, that “no-Friday-email” companies also breed a species of employee who spends most of Saturday making up for the lost time.
I’d say that if we need anything “enforced” across a company it’s periodic, rolling breaks from being accessible to everybody; to create an environment where everyone in the group or company knows the time and day when they will simply be uninterruptible, without exception, consequence, or need for excuse. That’s their time to do with as they please.