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On vacation? Don't apologise in your out-of-office reply

We should eradicate disrespect for a person's personal time. How we want to spend our time off should be up to us

IN an age where work-life balance is placed at the altar, there's one thing that I must confess: I am one of those uncool people who check their work e-mails several times a day, even while on vacation. While this is mostly out of habit and I don't respond unless absolutely necessary, not having access to my e-mails leaves me feeling a tad uneasy. From what I hear from my colleagues and peers, this seems to be a common sentiment in workaholic Singapore. Most people I know check their work e-mails mainly to clear their inboxes so that they won't get a heart attack when they return to the office.

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