Poll: Do you avoid sending emails late at night to prevent disturbing the recipient? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Filia García 
Puerto Rico
Local time: 09:26
Member (2020)
Spanish
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Schedule it! That is what I do, mainly because the person who will receive my email is in another time zone. So, I opt for writing the email and schedule the sending. I like to respect the much-needed resting hours of others.
| | | | Aline Amorim
Brazil
Local time: 10:26
English to Portuguese
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Filia García wrote:
Schedule it! That is what I do, mainly because the person who will receive my email is in another time zone. So, I opt for writing the email and schedule the sending. I like to respect the much-needed resting hours of others.
I prefer to do office hours. I like to respect the much-needed resting hours of others and I would like to be respected.
| | | | Metin Demirel
Türkiye
Local time: 16:26
Member (2018)
Italian to Turkish
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* I've been keeping my phone silent at all times for the last two years, due to some overseas contacts sending messages or sometimes calling on the phone since they do not always consider the time difference.
* And sometimes (thankfully not very often anymore) I work through the night and I wake up really late, of which my contacts may have no idea. So I get back to them at the earliest convenience.
* Sometimes, the clients assign a job with a tight schedule, which re... See more * I've been keeping my phone silent at all times for the last two years, due to some overseas contacts sending messages or sometimes calling on the phone since they do not always consider the time difference.
* And sometimes (thankfully not very often anymore) I work through the night and I wake up really late, of which my contacts may have no idea. So I get back to them at the earliest convenience.
* Sometimes, the clients assign a job with a tight schedule, which requires me to break my routine and work at night. In such cases, it is only natural that I may send an email at night.
In an industry with global networks like this, I believe it is common sense to keep the phone silent after office hours. I do avoid calling though (which is very rarely necessary). And I am careful about working hours if I have to send an instant message on WhatsApp or Skype. ▲ Collapse
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| I assume the recipients can turn off their computers... | Oct 6, 2021 |
In fact I regularly deliver jobs late at night, if the deadline is 'first thing in the morning'.
I am a night owl and work in the evenings, then make a leisurely start in the morning. I sleep better knowing that the job has been sent, and that no matter how early my client gets up, the files will be there in the mail.
I answer incoming mails when it suits me, and assume others can do the same.
| | | | | Doing other things | Oct 6, 2021 |
I don't send emails late at night, but that's not because I worry about disturbing the recipient. I assume that people are able to turn their computers or phones off, or at least to disable audible notifications, at times they don't want to be disturbed. If they don't do that, that's their problem.
I don't send emails late at night, because I am asleep.
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It depends where my client is located as I have customers in different time zones (from GMT-7 to GMT+8), so late at night for me might be quite reasonable hours for my client…
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 10:26
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| Of course not | Oct 6, 2021 |
Sending an email is not like making a phone call or sending a message in Whatsapp. It will just sit there in their inbox until they read it. This question makes no sense to me. Perhaps because now, in the smartphone era, the phones do ring when a new message comes in. Now, it's the owners problem if they configure the phone to ring or if they sleep with the phone next to their bed. I don't.
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Marjolein Snippe
Netherlands
Local time: 15:26
Member (2012)
English to Dutch
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| Doing other things | Oct 6, 2021 |
Like Philip, I don't send emails late at night because I don't work late at night.
I do send emails during my working hours without considering what time it may be in different time zones. Very occasionally, I am surprised at a client's instant reply when I know that it is late in the evening where they are, but like Mario I assume people choose whether or not to be notified of arriving emails.
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