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With late-night calls, even bedtime isn’t safe from work
Out-of-hours communication takes an emotional toll, but that doesn’t stop employers from picking up the phone.
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A study found anticipating an e-mail in the evening and at the weekends created anxiety, regardless of how long workers spent reading or replying to them.
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Emma Jacobs
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After Mr Howard Lutnick is tucked up in bed, at about 1am, he takes a phone call from his boss, US President Donald Trump, to discuss trade and shoot the breeze. This revelatory titbit appeared in a New Yorker profile on the US Commerce Secretary.
“They talk about ‘real stuff’, like Canadian steel tariffs and also about ‘nothing’,” the journalist wrote. “Sporting events, people, who’d you have dinner with, what was this guy like, can you believe what this guy did, what’s the TV like, I saw this on TV, what’d you think of what this guy said on TV, what did you think about my press conference, how about this Truth?”
