To Avoid Checking Emails On Vacation: Auto-Delete Them | Fast Company

September 23, 2014 ~ lmehit ~ Leave a comment

You’re on summer vacation at the beach. What are the chances that you pull out your phone to check your work email? No matter how much we might say we recognize the value of unplugging, most of us aren’t very good at actually doing it. One study found that as many as 83% of employees check email on vacation.

If we can’t stem our email addiction by ourselves, maybe the answer is to make it automatic. At Daimler’s headquarters in Germany, employees have the option to turn on a “Mail on Holiday” function on their email: Every time an email comes in while the employee is away, it’s automatically deleted.

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Why Small Business Owners Need a Summer Vacation | Business News Daily

June 30, 2014 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

As a small business owner, it can seem almost impossible to take time away from work. You may think that you can’t afford to go on vacation when you’re in charge of your company’s day-to-day operations, but to protect your own well-being, you really can’t afford not to.

“Small business owners wear many hats,” said Craig Bryant, founder and product manager of small business HR management software company Kin HR. “Many hats means many worries, and many worries bring lack of sleep, exercise and time to decompress. Exhaustion can lead to poor decision-making, and we all know what that means for business.”