Close Ad

Employee Sends After-Hours Email, CEO Has The Most Impressive Response
Rob Sweeney CEO Facet Email Response
Uplifting News

Employee Sends After-Hours Email, CEO Has The Most Impressive Response

A CEO understands the value of work-life balance and prohibits employees from sending emails after work hours unless it's an emergency.


CEO understands the need for limits

For many of us, COVID-19 has brought work home. The line between job and life has been blurred with remote work and it's easy to feel like you're working for all of your waking hours.

But one CEO wants to preserve his employees' work-life balance (remember that!?).

Hot Stories

Robert Sweeney, CEO at Facet posted on LinkedIn about a policy of no work emails or Slack messages after hours. And he's serious about enforcing it.

When one employee tried to send an email, he sent them this response:

"Everyone is talking about the late night or over the weekend messages they get from you. You can tell people not to read them, but that doesn't work. It makes their phone buzz late at night.

Plus, if we needed to get a hold of someone after hours for an emergency, we won't be able to because we've told them to ignore after hours messages.

There is a feature in Outlook that lets you schedule an email to go out at a specific date/time. Can you start scheduling your emails to go out at 8:30am on the next business day? Only use slack after hours and on weekends when it's an emergency.

In Outlook you just click on the down arrow on the send button and it gives you the option to schedule it to go out later.

>> Their reply: Good suggestion. Thank you
>> My response: Not a suggestion. :)"

Work-life balance is possible

Sure, a company may say it believes in work-life balance, but does your boss still permit after-work messages? Most do, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Over in Germany, the country is considering enshrining no work emails as a homeworking right. In France, companies haven't been allowed to send their employees after-work emails for years.

And coronavirus has only amplified the need for preserving work-life balance while many of us work remotely. Just ask this woman who wanted to work less because she was helping her child learn at home (the boss said 'no,' for the best reason possible).

Set boundaries

If you're in the C-suite at your company, have you considered implementing a similar policy at your work? Why not?

As for employees, you're responsible, too. If you don't have to initiate an after-hours message, don't. If you don't set boundaries, it can hurt your relationships and lead to burn-out, and nobody wants that.

More uplifting stories:

Why Jennifer Hudson Forgave Her Mother's Killer -- Life Stories By Goalcast

At the peak of her career, Jennifer Hudson faced a horrific family tragedy. Hudson's mother and brother were brutally attacked in their family home, and her seven-year-old nephew was kidnapped. What followed was a heart-wrenching manhunt to rescue her nephew and seek justice against the man who took her family. Hudson speaks from the heart in this video on what happened to her family and how she was able to move forward.

Celebrities
People smiling in unison united
Racism Quotes

Racism is considered the marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges another race. The term is applied in many areas of a society that perpetuates discrimination on the basis of race or strengthen racial inequalities in education, health care, income, and civil rights.

Ever since the 20th century, the concept of biological race is considered a cultural invention that has no scientific basis. The progress over the past half-century has been impressive, but the nation still has a long way to go to reach true racial equality.

Keep ReadingShow less
Everyday Heroes
hands are put together as part of community volunteer efforts
Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash

A community is so much more than people sharing a space. It's a living, breathing network of connections and shared experiences. While it's usually defined as “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common,” true community runs much deeper than that.

Diversity

Keep ReadingShow less
Quotes