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Why ‘schedule send’ may not be the perfect fix for out-of-hours work
Timing e-mails can aid flexible work but mask long hours.
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Some people do not agree it is a good thing to disguise working hours.
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Bethan Staton
Like many young researchers, Dr Stephana Julia Moss sometimes finds herself sending e-mails late at night. Not that her colleagues know: She uses the schedule send function, so e-mails composed at 11pm arrive the following morning.
For Dr Moss and many of her friends, who work after hours because childcare invades the nine-to-five day, the function is invaluable. “Given the demands on a lot of young women professors, there are certain parts of our day when we cannot respond to our e-mail when our counterparts could,” she says.
