"We think that if we don't check our emails our workplace will stop running and everything will fall apart"
This is what a friend of mine recently quoted and it is a behaviour he observed from himself. I reflected that I too have this habit. As a workaholic myself, I do agree to this statement. I can't survive for not checking my work email at night before I go to sleep. And sometimes I checked again in the morning before I go to work, it is as if my staff/colleagues will work between 11pm to next morning 6am and attended to my email?! Although some of my collaborators do reply my email but it really doesn't make any different to them (especially those in UK that has 8 hours time difference now) whether I reply at 6am or 9am when i get to work right? So why do i bother? Sometimes I find my behaviour not logical and really such a workaholic!!! Even when I am on leave, I check my work email, when i am travelling abroad, i check... luckily i don't have one of those blackberry that i can check my email as i travel!
So at the end, I concluded that I (we?) really do think that the world revolve around me (us?). I also think that sometimes we do need to think it this way in order to work harder. I wonder whether you will agree with me =p
2 comments:
Haiyo, as I was reading this, I remember that I forgot to log onto my outlook for office mail. But I DO have people sending me emails between 9pm till 6am wo... hehe... and yes, workaholic behaviour for sure.
I think we also have a mortal fear of overflowing mail boxes (mails from friends, work, spam, etc). Email housekeeping is extremely time consuming since I have to at least check that none of the emails I am deleting comes from my boss :)
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