Create a mercenary Out-of-Office notification. When I travel or am in writing shutdown, I set an Out-of-Office reply advising that I will not be following up on emails. I invite people to resend their request after my return date if the matter is still important. Which effectively pushes the onus back on the sender to reconnect. Which is smart. I mean, how do I know if they’ve resolved the matter in my absence? And, after all, they are the ones needing a piece of me. We forget this. We forget that email is not a summons.
