{"id":1922,"date":"2012-09-10T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2012-09-09T18:47:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T17:47:53","slug":"ooo-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/ooo-4\/","title":{"rendered":"OOO #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

This reflection came from one reader in response to our series of blogs on \u2018OOO\u2019 (out of office) messages for example<\/a>. We share the ideas we received here (thanks R):<\/p>\n

\u201cExcellent and timely articles.<\/p>\n

I have been experimenting with some of these (and would dearly love to try one or two others).<\/p>\n

Although I have, and try to maintain, very separate work and social lives, I have found that the way I operate them has become almost identical.<\/p>\n

By which I mean that work is ruled by desktop\/laptop\/Blackberry\/mobile etc and social life is ruled by laptop\/smartphone\/internet. This means that when those two seemingly distinct worlds collide, which they inevitably do, it’s not always clear which laptop\/’phone I need to reach for.<\/p>\n

I recently found myself very much behind with what used to be called ‘paperwork’ – I don’t know the modern equivalent – in my private life (bills, correspondence etc). I had to specifically allocate a set amount of time on a specific day when I could deal with that and do so by switching off\/ignoring everything to do with work. (For me, that’s a downside of the ‘digital only’ world – timely paper reminders kept me on track and ‘going paperless’ sometimes means I let things slide!)<\/p>\n

I think I managed to give myself a three hour block when I did nothing but sort out those things important to me\/my family. It was very liberating.<\/p>\n

The ‘day blocking’ you cite here is something I will take up. I recently got back from a short period of leave to be faced with two conflicting issues: my first day back involved three meetings; and my bulging inbox contained ‘promises’ from colleagues about urgent briefings and the like that I would provide immediately upon my return.<\/p>\n

The next leave period I have, I will clear at least one day either side. I have to say, the ‘e-mail bankruptcy’ idea is very appealing – I shall consider that further.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This reflection came from one reader in response to our series of blogs on \u2018OOO\u2019 (out of office) messages for example. We share the ideas we received here (thanks R): \u201cExcellent and timely articles. I have been experimenting with some of these (and would dearly love to try one or two others). Although I have, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128],"tags":[107,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}