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If life is just 4,000 weeks long, should I waste them on clearing my inbox?

Texts and e-mails from work will keep intruding into your personal time. Let’s set some boundaries.

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Tending to e-mail inboxes has become a full-time job, says the writer.

Tending to e-mail inboxes has become a full-time job, says the writer.

ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO

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SINGAPORE – It’s almost the weekend, but you have unanswered e-mails. Deadlines loom and Slack messages pile up. You have no choice but to respond.

The truth is that, for many of us, the days of logging off work and blissfully forgetting about it until you log on again the following day is pretty much history.

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