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I prefer to be able to slack my direct reports without thinking “are they going to get this on the toilet? Is this going to make them panic?”

It’s ok to wait a few minutes.

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We've set up separate channels in our messaging app: One for random stuff and one for emergencies, and we only leave notifications on for the latter.

I set expectations with my team that it's only an emergency if I call or page them. I don't have Slack notifications on in my personal time, I don't expect my team to either.

I miss async communication. People apparently think it’s rude if I slack them at 4 AM but it’s on them to turn off notifications. I don’t even have slack on my phone. Nevermind people complaining about out of hours emails.. just don’t read them!

The few times I had to Slack someone way out of office hours I simply set a delayed message to be sent in the beginning of the workday.

People have different notification management than we do, I disable any work-related app notification outside of 9-5, others don't so maybe it's better to cater to them and send delayed messages if you aren't expecting them to read right away.

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