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Pro tip: my old boss swore a hard stop at 5pm was lazy, and she was wrong
Honestly, my old agency boss in Chicago told me real freelancers answer every Slack message the second it lands, even on a Sunday. I did that for 7 months straight and ended up so fried I stared at a blank Google Doc for 4 hours and billed nobody. Now I close my laptop at 5pm no matter what, and my output went up because I stopped writing garbage at 11pm. Has anyone else had a boss or client push that always-on thing, and how did you shut it down without losing the gig?
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garcia.cameron6d ago
I read a study from Stanford that said people who answer emails after hours get burnt out way faster and their work gets worse. My old boss used to say the same thing yours did and I just started replying slower and slower on weekends til she stopped expecting it.
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