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20 Aug, 2014
100.000 nhân viên của công ty ôtô Daimler trụ sở ở Stuttgart có thể để tùy chọn tất cả các email tới inbox sẽ tự động xóa khi họ đi du lịch mùa hè, và công ty cũng trấn an họ rằng sẽ không ghi lại ai đã lựa chọn như vậy.
note: Bộ Lao động của Đức yêu cầu các nhà quản lý không được email và gọi nhân viên ngoài giờ làm việc trừ khi trong trường hợp khẩn cấp.
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Daimler employees can head to the beach this summer without worrying about checking emails, sparing their partners and children the frustration of work-related matters intruding on the family vacation.
The Stuttgart-based car and truck-maker said about 100,000 German employees can now choose to have all their incoming emails automatically deleted when they are on holiday so they do not return to a bulging in-box.
For that matter they will not feel any pressure to check work email while they are away. From the FT there is more here.
You will notice this is related to some ideas from optimal queuing theory. The sender is notified that the email will be obliterated, and if it is important, he or she can send again and rejoin the queue once the recipient is back from vacation. In other words, when a long queue of email might otherwise form, potential queue creators are told they have to wait and restart later on, but at the back of the line, so to speak.
Some part of me finds this deeply wrong, but perhaps as a blogger/infovore I am not the person to ask. And there is this, which I don’t believe can be the long-term equilibrium:
It is up to Daimler employees to decide whether they wish to use the system, but Daimler assured staff it would not record who had done so.
There is a legal/regulatory angle too:
Germany’s labour ministry told managers to stop emailing or calling staff out-of-hours except in an emergency.
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nếu thật sự quan tâm đến nhân viên, có thể áp dụng: thông báo không được có bất cứ email nào trong thời gian 9-11h sáng, 1-3h chiều, hoặc giới hạn tối đa 10 emails một ngày (liệu có ai đó có hơn 10 điều quan trọng để nói trong ngày không nhỉ?
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Is this a good idea? ~ Kathleen
A: Not having to worry about email while you’re on vacation sounds wonderful, and this policy will probably boost employees’ well-being—though, of course, some will still wonder what they might have missed.
That said, the Daimler approach seems pretty extreme, and it deals with the symptoms rather than the root problem. In my experience, email stresses people out constantly, not just during vacations. We get too much email every day of the year; we spend too much time responding to it and worrying about it. Email correspondence in many corporations is so out of hand that it leaves almost no time for any actual work.
If the bosses at Daimler really care about their employees’ welfare, why not tackle the inefficiencies of this communication channel—and work to reduce their overall email load? How about announcing that no email is allowed between 9 and 11 a.m. and again between 1 and 3 p.m.? Or what if they limited people to just 10 emails a day? (Does anyone really have more than 10 important things to say in a day?)