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>If you want a law with teeth, prohibit employers from emailing workers outside of work hours

This seems needlessly punitive for the same results. My boss works much later hours than me and I don't really see a point in forcing them to send me emails from the night before at 9AM when there'd be no penalty for me not responding to evening emails anyways

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You can just have the server delay the email until morning.

I worked at a company which was like this. All emails were delayed until the hour to make sure you only got one interruption per hour. You could mark the email as “high importance” to get it through immediately, as were emails from external addresses.

I have that setup on evolution, when it's open it checks every 60 minutes for new mail, I just leave it running on Workspace 4 (email/communication) and forget about it.

If something requires responding to in <60 minutes..well that something probably requires a phonecall.

I think people forget that email is meant to be asynchronous.

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