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Originally Posted by ResAlien
If only there was some way to not reply to after hours emails.
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Literally everything is designed to make it easier for employees to do exactly the opposite, and to motivate them to get better at being always reachable. And it all starts with the phone.
People get corporate phones and use them for personal, or phone subsidies to install work apps and mail on their personal devices. So now the device you've always got with you and already staring at for a good portion of the day is a gateway to work. Even people who don't actually put corporate e-mail on their personal device through an app, well, chances are they know how to use Outlook Web App or similar, so they end up looking at it anyway.
For a long time, a company laptop connecting via the corporate VPN was really the only way to properly connect to work resources remotely. Well, the cloud and the pandemic sure put that on its head. It has never been easier for people to just 'casually' work after hours because "Well, it's just one e-mail".
Everything has been designed -- from corporate cultures, to BYOD policies, to the software companies use -- with the intention of making it frictionless to work more from where ever you are.