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> When you would leave the house or office, nobody would be able to get in touch with you and you could do what you wanted to do without interruption or distraction. It was nice.

It was nice? You can still leave your phone at home.

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apparently, for some, many even, this puts them under some stress and pressure, socially and organisatoric.

In which case you need to delineate your channels of access more clearly. Move your main communication to something more asynchronous (email, text, wechat/whatsapp, slack), set a time where things will be checked, and perhaps offer an emergency line over real-time messaging (phone calls fit the bill best).

Most things are not time critical, and a sizable portion of the things that are, are not mission critical.

the emergency line is the stressor I ment.

The emergency line should almost never be used. It sounds like you have too many emergencies.

This certainly applies to me. The workaround is to just let those close to you know that you'll be off the grid for a while but are still ok. Then you don't need to worry about them worrying.

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