After-hours work messages pressure employees and harm work-life balance
Employees receive weekend work messages, feel forced to respond quickly, and fear being seen as rude, hurting their personal time and causing burnout.
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- so work added a mandatory team happy hour every other friday now and i get that its supposed to be nice but i already see these people forty hours a week and by friday i just want to go home and not perform being fun for two more hours and when i skipped the first one my manager asked if everything was okay like something must be wrong with me for not wanting to stay late and drink mediocre wine…
- How do you get a job to actually respect a cutoff time without turning into the person who 'has an attitude about communication'? My director added me to a new group chat last week just so he can message me on weekends about stuff that was never actually urgent come Monday. I tried letting it sit until the work day started and then got asked in a meeting why I was slow to respond. Does anything…