But it's my work!
I know that there are lots of people who have separate work and non-work email accounts. Or more to the point, since almost all of us have accounts of that sort, what I should write is that some people actually use those separate accounts. But again, digitality doesn't distinguish between work and home - mail is mail is mail. And since it often happens that our work friends become our personal friends, separating letters that a work colleague sends into the personal and the work-related is close to impossible. If we ask a client how he or she is doing before getting to the "business" aspects of a letter, are we crossing some sort of line? And if we're at home and want to write a "personal" letter to that client, do we have to be careful not to raise any work-related issues?
On a personal note, I often receive requests for work-related help in the evening. I know that nobody will complain if I leave these aside until the morning, in order to attend to them "at work". But I usually prefer to deal with them from home. Often, the fact that I attend to these requests so promptly brings me more than just a bit of praise for how seriously I respect the needs of my "clients". But the truth is that these are usually tasks which even if I'm tired I can easily attend to, and if I've dealt with them in the evening, in the morning my desk is clean for me to attend to some private matters that I was probably too tired to attend to satisfactorily while at home.
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