My old manager's 5 PM rule changed how I answer emails
Last month my old boss called to catch up and said I looked burned out. She told me she stops answering work emails after 5 PM unless it's a real emergency, and I laughed because we used to reply to clients at 11 PM together. I tried her rule for two weeks and my evenings got way less tense, but now I'm worried about missing something urgent. Has anyone else set a hard cutoff for work communication and actually stuck with it?