Re: Probably fed up with everyone "working" from home ignoring their email.
> If you need a response in real time, then you shouldn't be using email.
And I wonder how often that occurs.
When the building's on fire, maybe?
Taking a moment to give a bit of thought to a message instead of blurting something out or blasting off a text has its advantages.
And, yes, I do find it mildly incongrouous that email is now to be considered thoughtful, given its earlier history of flame wars and such nonsense, but perhaps that's just because I've aged (as opposed to have grown up).
A few years ago, due to a slow healing injury, I spent six months out of the office, working remotely, and look back upon that half year as some of the most productive time spent in that particular job.
No two hour meetings, no jabbering lab assistants in the hallways, nobody's contorted idea of music blaring away*, no delivery people trundling outside my office door.
Virtually all of my communication was via email, other than a weekly telephone call that rarely lasted more than ten minutes, since I arranged it so that I could present first then hang up and get back to work.
Not to mention that my own home computing setup was far better than the antiquated trash they have me.
And, of course, not having to commute was like getting a couple hundred bucks a month raise at no cost to them.
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* To be sure, they probably thought the same of my notion of music, so fair's fair.