I guess Slack, Teams and all messaging apps will add a feature to queue up a message to be sent at exactly 9am (or whenever work starts)
So often I want to ask a question to someone, but not disturb them in their off hours. It is not urgent enough to keep them up at night, it is urgent enough to me needing an answer the next morning. Emails have become too formal for most people now, so I don't like sending them unless absolutely necessary. This is especially true for those working across timezones or night owls like me.
Now, my ADHD low working memory brain would love to queue these messages and forget about them. Rather than cluttering my todo list ( big no-no) or even worse keeping them in my head for an extra 12 hours.
It seems to be trivial to implement and I am honestly surprised it isn't a feature already.
I sure wouldn’t want slack to have access to my calendar or PTO schedule, especially given that I can already manage notifications today.
I just send the message anyway, and I expect it to be read whenever they log back on to work. I would not expect any message, sent during off-hours, to be received immediately by the recipient.
Slack has now integrated message scheduling, but before that there used to be addons to do that. There is a big difference between you choosing to do something and a toxic startup culture where the boss thinks it's part of the grind and shames people when they're not onboard.