Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team at 6:29 PM

I have read an article from the Harvard Business Review website with the above title written by Maura Thomas and I think it's interesting enough to share with you. I am, personally, one of the person who blast e-mails late at night, just as soon as they get into my mind so that I will not forget them, but reading this article made me realize that it's wrong. The article starts in the following paragraph.  All credits are due to the author.

Around 11 p.m. one night, you realize there’s a key step your team needs to take on a current project. So, you dash off an email to the team members while you’re thinking about it.

No time like the present, right?

Wrong. As a productivity trainer specializing in attention management, I’ve seen over the past decade how after-hours emails speed up corporate cultures — and that, in turn, chips away at creativity, innovation, and true productivity.

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