Katie Bauer!

Having a teammate in a drastically different timezone really brings into sharp focus how needlessly inefficient it is for the team overall to delay send emails to PST morning so that people don't think you're weird for working late

Norms to combat this: - when onboarding new people to the team, encourage them to turn off all notifications and alerts - explicitly give voice to the idea that they should check messages on their own schedule, not your schedule (but keeping company responsiveness norms in mind)

- frontload with an expectation that you might send emails at unusual times or days of the week and that it's just when you happen to be feeling productive, not that you expect other people to do the same, or to read or respond then

What do you think about setting high level expectations for how urgent different forms of communication are? For example, never send an email for something a quick response

Fwiw I frame it more as an escalation path rather than a dont use x for Someone may need to send an urgent email or slack to leverage other attributes of those platforms, but if they want immediate reply, I’m clear about call > text > slack > email as my escalation path

This seems like a pretty useful framework for picking email vs. slack! An intersecting (adjacent?) concern might be public vs. private conversations, which both email and slack can be.