Manage Boundaries Better With Your Team

While 96% of U.S. professionals say they need some degree of flexibility in where and when they get their work done, they also say that unwarranted off-hours interruptions affect their ability to detach and recharge. 3 That can compromise career satisfaction, which is bad news both for employees and the leaders trying to retain them. 4 Against this backdrop, California recently considered a "right to disconnect" bill that was ultimately shelved - with those opposing it arguing that a one-size-fits-all approach is rarely optimal. Ask your team members about their working hours and when, if at all, they consider it appropriate, necessary, or reasonable for you to contact them outside of that period. An informative off-hours auto-reply can accommodate this by specifying resources or redirects for common queries, such as an administrative assistant, another department, or a particular document or static source of information that is available but perhaps hard to find. * Control access. For this to work, knowledge must be infused throughout the team rather than concentrated within individual team members. 3.