How early and how late can you send email?

[Anonymous]

The issue at my org isn’t expecting an immediate response. The issue is people don’t want their cell phones pinging all night when they’re trying to sleep when it’s not an emergency. We have staff on both coasts and HR just issued guidance that asks people to use delay send during off-hours for anything non-emergent.

[Anonymous]

Why would someone configure his cell phone to retrive work email and then leave it turned on all night in a location where it would be disturbing? If an employee chooses to do this, that is not the sender's problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone configure his cell phone to retrive work email and then leave it turned on all night in a location where it would be disturbing? If an employee chooses to do this, that is not the sender's problem.

As stated above, for emergencies. I work in comms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why this gets people upset. I truly don’t. Professional courtesy gives 24 hours to respond to and email that isn’t marked urgent. If it is urgent, address it as soon as you possibly can given your personal circumstances. It is on the recipient to protect their personal time.

I don’t care what time something hits my in box. My working hours go from 830 am to 9/930 pm with breaks for kids activities in between.

This. I have employees in my office who send emails at 5 am. I respond when I log on at 9. I have breaks through the day to deal with young kids so I often get back on and work 9 pm to midnight. I send emails during that time and people respond the next day. It’s not at all an issue.

Ditto.