Employee fails to read late-night email from boss, demanding to prep for a 9 am meeting the next day, leading to an office dispute first thing in the morning: ‘Where have you been?’

Listen, we love technology, we love the internet, and we would never want to go back to the times when we didn't have the entire world's knowledge resting in the palm of our hands.

We would, however, love it if people would stop assuming that just because they can reach out to us at every hour of every day, it means that they should. We don't have to be available for everyone's beck and call, even if, technologically, we have the option to.

This can be said about many situations, but we mainly refer to the workplace. Years ago, the minute you stepped out of the office, people from work could not demand anything of you anymore. Your work was left behind at your desk, or at the stationary PC that could not be moved, and everything you worked on had to wait until the next day to be continued. You were never expected to read emails at midnight or on your commute to work in the mornings. You only worked when you were physically at the office.

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