Date : 7 Apr 2022 || The following headline went viral :
Work Life balance : “Microsoft boss Satya Nadella warns of impact of late-night emails”
While reading the article i became curious :
- Did i not knew this before?
- Were most of the readers not aware of this before?
While it is wonderful that a professional of size of Satya Nadella has spoken of it and the world has started talking about it again, the “Action” that follows needs due attention. Nice gesture from Mr Nadella.
Now that Mr Nadella has brought this #Awareness, what do we do with it? I? You? We?
Few questions i sensed can support us with direction :
- Where did this late night email come from?
- Why did this late night email come?
- Who has sent this late night email?
- What is the purpose of sending this late night email?
- What is the expectation from this late night email?
- What am is expected to do after receiving this late night email?
- Is the sender ok if i send the reply on the next working hour?
- Am is expected to reply instantly to this late night email?
- Am is ok to wait top reply to this late night email even if it ok to wait?
Happy reflection !!
From a personal point of view, i shared the following as LinkedIn post/tweet :
𝗶𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 : #𝗔𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 #𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 !!
𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 #𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 !!
𝐿𝑒𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 :: 𝗔𝗺 𝗶 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀? 𝗔𝗺 𝗶 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ? 𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝘁𝗵? 𝗡𝗼𝗻𝗲?
𝑅𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑎 𝐺𝑎𝑛𝑑ℎ𝑖 𝑞𝑢𝑜𝑡𝑒 :: 𝗕𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲…𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗼…