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The Email Response Time Expectation That Is Burning You Out
Lucas and Luna break down one of the most insidious sources of career exhaustion: the unspoken norm that colleagues expect a reply within hours or even minutes. They trace the history of this expectation from early BlackBerry culture through the pandemic Slackification of work, then focus on a specific, actionable fix called the 'batch-reply buffer.' Lucas shares data from a Microsoft study showing it takes an average of 23 minutes to regain focus after an email interruption. Luna brings her own experiment: setting a four-hour response window for internal emails and seeing her…
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