Sondaggio: Do you check work email from home?

My Name is ____ and I'm an email addict. The urge to check email has gotten me into occassional trouble w/ my job, w/ my wife, w/ myself. In fact, the main reason I've resisted IM and Twitter is I suspect it would just make further inroads into my time, and play to my propensities to get obsessive over this stuff. That said, email, I adore you. You have all the allure that passing notes in class used to have.

follow up - I have a friend who says no one ever died of a Library emergency, and I try to remember that, even as I'm checking.

I've been known to check email very late at night when some "thing" - not necessarily a problem occurs to me and I can't get it out of my mind. Sometimes I write a quick note to self about the following day's activities.

I work odd hours so I do check it sometimes before I go into work and sometimes after I have worked a shift if I was not able to read my email while at work. I also do check my email when I am not at work so that if there is someone I need to contact, I can do so before there is too long a delay

I work evenings and Saturday, so what I do is the reverse: I check my work email in the late morning to give myself an idea of what the day has in store, and see if my boss has responded to anything from the previous night.

I think I'm nuts to do it, but I find myself checking when I'm at home.

I check email work email mostly when a large project is in the works and on vacation to keep up.

Since my weekend is Sunday-Monday, I will occasionally log in once on Monday if I am expecting something important.

For vacations, it's both a way to keep up and to do the travelogue thing that used to be done via postcards - a way to share photos with the folks back home.

I used to check it, all the time, several times a day. But I've come to see, in self and spouse [crackberry], how that toasts a life. Now, many days do NOT turn on the 'puter when I get home from work. Quality of life improves dramatically. The old saw is true: if it's on fire they (whoever they) WILL call you. Beware false sense of busyness and drama in too much connectedness, I've learned.

Only if I want it to count as worktime for my paycheck -- and then only in cases of having to be unexpectedly out of the office (Family member sick, e.g.)

I absolutely do not check e-mail when I am on vacation. Vacation = no work! If it's really serious -- and it better well be -- the key person(s) at work have my cell phone number. Everything else can wait until I get back to the office.

I check work email much more frequently than my personal accounts, because I might hear from authors or my boss at any time. Also, I have a number of professional subscriptions coming in to that account and I get almost no spam coming through the university firewall.

I suppose I don't get as much email as some other people (thank goodness!!), but I love it, and check it frequently... I also am an anal organizer, so I hate having a cluttered inbox - I'm comfortable with only about 15 or so unresolved.

I check work email when I'm home sick and sometimes before I go to work to get a jump on things.

The few times I have not kept in touch, stuff has happened. If I let people know I am out, and my staff where I am, they do not need me. Only when I am "out of touch" do events needing immediate attention arise.

I check email on the mornings that I am off before going in for an afternoon/evening shift. That way I face fewer surprises.

Despite my 1-3-5 answer, I still feel completely overwhelmed by email, and I teach people how to not be overwhelmed by email. I have at least 400 unanswered-answer-needed emails in my work email and about 200 unanswered-answer-needed emails in my personal email right now. It just piles up quicker than you can work through it, until you simply have to take 4-8 hours to just sit and sift. Don't even get me started about my GReader account.

I only work part time in a secondary school library but check my emails regularly. They back up. It's easier to get rid of them when I can. However there are sometimes days in between when at work or at home I just don't get to them.

I check my work email on Tuesday morning because we have a managers meeting scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 a.m., but sometimes the Director cancels the meeting after I leave work on Monday night. That's the only time I check regularly when I'm away from work.

Inevitably, if I do check from home on weekends or vacation, there's a problem and then I have to worry about it. If I don't check, I don't have to deal with the problem until I'm back on work time. If it's very urgent, someone will call. My home time is time for my family.

I have always been in the position here that if the library is open then I may get calls about our systems so in essence I am always either checking in or on call.

often don't even get to email during day. too many meetings!

Email and the 10 library blogs, newsreader are checked every day with a rare day that I don't. If I didn't I would be worried about it all day anyway. Need to clear out the spam too. Exceptions: family emergencies. I even tell people that I will be checking email on my "out of office" message. Guess I'm completely blurred ;)

Very rarely will I check my email from home. I am paid hourly, so when I am off the clock, I try not to spend my time working. I usually check once or twice while on vacation, just to make sure my emails are forwarded to the appropriate person.

Though I don' t check e-mail from home. I have been known to come to work for a meeting while on vacation, do check my voicemail sometimes, and have taken home work that I knew would require too much time during my work day.

I try to avoid checking work email at home, but there may be exceptions depending on what's been going on at work. I recently returned from vacation, and waited until I got home to check work email (at home, day before returning to work). Didn't have laptop, but checked personal email at libraries and hotel several times while away.

I check my work email at the end of vacation to get an idea of what when on during my absense and delete the junk. This first review makes it easier to face my email on the first day back at work.

I feel better about life in general if I check email at least once on Sunday eves to avoid surprises after a weekend. Also, my email at work includes friends who are also colleagues so don't want to miss those! I don't always open and respondl...just check to see what is there!

On vacations (I've only actually had two so far--I'm new to this Librarian gig) I check my e-mail a couple of times. Not every day. Mostly, I do it so that when I come back I don't have 1,000+ e-mails to sort through... ug.

I rarely check email from home or on vacation. The exception: If I am on a business trip I will check email OR if I call in sick, if I'm up to it, I'll check and make sure nothing important was sent to only me.

If I have to report in sick, I do that via the work e-mail account; while I'm there, I check the inbox and refer anything that needs immediate attention to another colleague.

I'll check it occasionally at night through the week and usually every weekend at least once or twice, but I rarely act on anything unless it is dire. It can usually wait until I get to work but I am curious to see what is going on.

Depends on the vacation, and the capability. sometimes email access isn't readably available. but when it is, i try to check, at least once a day.

Less so at night but definitely on weekends and vacation. I'd rather spend a few minutes a day keeping up with it than deal with it when I get back. When I'm on vacations I will hit the delete key more quickly -- especially with list mail. Anytime I'm at home or on vacation I tend to respond to only what I need to. I almost never check work-related blogs though.

I check from home on weekends and/or weekdays if the weather is bad or there is information I need to provide to student assistants or my boss.

I will, however, check work email when I am attending conference, workshops, and the like.

Generally speaking, I try to leave work at work.

a) I'm too dumb to use this poll.
b) I just started a new job, so I answered for what I did for the previous job. I expect less email checking from home now.

Sometimes on weekends or evenings. It depends on whether I am working on a project with important deadlines or waiting for a specific email. Usually (90% of the time) I try VERY hard not to look at work email from home.

I can't check my library work from home, which is awesome but I do other freelance work and that's all home/evening/weekend and occasionally vacation. I try very hard not to let it be vacation though

As a library director, I check in frequently to keep an eye on any impending issues. Mostly I try to avoid responding unless absolutely needed.

I'm trying longer email-free times to help me detach from work (when I'm off) and also show the great staff I work with my confidence in their judgement and decisions.

There's sweet relief in stepping away from the flowing inboxes and text on the screen.

I check only if I am expecting trouble.

I check my email on vacation if I have access to internet.

While I do sometimes check email on work evenings, that is much less than on weekends or when I'm sick/home for some other reason. I try not to check on vacation, though I'll admit I will do it if there is something pressing when I leave town. I would rather know what's going on than to have a mess when I get into work.

I do not check my work email after hours at all. When on vacation, I only check on Wednesday because that is when they post our work schedule for the next week.

On working days I leave home at 6 am and get home at 6pm. By the time I have had dinner, I am ready for bed, not email. If I go online at all, it will be for Twitter and FriendFeed, which I guess is kind of like e-mail.

There pretty much is no time when I do not check work email - but for me, it really doesn't feel like 'work' and I don't find myself resenting it or anything. I don't always DO anything about the emails until I am back at work - though sometimes I do. I think that if it stressed me out or made me feel resentful, I would stop doing it (I hope) so that I wouldn't be "burned out" on work. But, as it is, I just do it as part of a "normal routine" sort of.

When I am expecting an email that I don't get by work's end. I check it at home on nights and weekends. I check it at least every other day on vacation when I'm able. I actually went a whole week this spring without checking either home or work. After the first couple of days of withdrawal, it was glorious.

I'm afraid I'm permanently attached to my laptop and/or my phone pda. It's a terrible habit, but I feel so disconnected when I can't check email. The only time I was away from my library & unable to check my email was when I was in the hospital after a serious car accident. But as soon as I was home - out came the laptop while I was home in bed!!!

On the vacation question, it really depends on the vacation. I generally retreat to a monastery for 2-8 weeks annually and I usually don't check my email when at the monastery.

I check at nights & weekends during the busy (for students) time of the semester. I also tell them that I don’t check email on wknds & nights, so if they have a research Q & I'm on IM, they should IM me instead of sending email.

I would much rather check in the evenings and on vaca and delete and/or read the things that don't really need my attention than come back and find 200 emails waiting for me.

I work part-time so I check emails from home on days that I'm not working too. Helps me keep up and get the work done that I want to do when I'm at work.

It's become harder to not check work email all the time since they got us BlackBerries. I'm leaving soon for a 3 week vacation and having a hard time deciding whether to take the Berry or not. I really don't want to be disturbed by phone calls, and I'll have my laptop if I should have the urge to check email, so I'm leaning towards not bringing it.

The main reason I check email on he weekends, though, is because my friends who work at the Uni use that email address, and I haven't really invested time to ween them of that.

This might explain why so many profs are using facebook as email, though -- keeps us out of our work accounts after hours!

I'm trying not to check my email in the evenings or during the weekends. But it's kind of a compulsion. There are also sometimes when I will check it in the morning before I leave for work just to see if there is anything important that I'll have to deal with when I get there. Then I use my commute time to plan, problem solve, etc.

Just got back from vacation, checked my email once and decided that whatever was in there could wait until I got back and didn't check it again.

Wrk em is chkd during work hrs. i'm not able 2 work from home @this job, so btwn the hrs of 8&5, im at work. When i worked at home, the line was blurred, & i checked it along with my personal em. when im out of the office, but still working, those hrs do not apply & em gets chckd as it comes into my phone. when i'm on vaca, it depends on the vaca. This past vaca (in cali, after ALA) i accidentally looked at it on my phone, but was planning to be completely unavailable for those 3 days.

I very, very rarely check in on work stuff when I'm not at work. I think about it, but more in a creative, idea-y way than in a detailed, focused way.

I am trying to do less work while not on work time. But it's hard to cut back, I can't get everything done in 40 hours.

Once I am home from work, it's my time, not work's time. Nothing in my job is life-or-death, so it can wait till morning or Monday. Same goes for personal vacations. I refuse to let my job take over my life.

Now, conferences, like ALA, I will check e-mail, but usually only once or twice a day. My out of office message states that I will be checking e-mail, but there will be a delay, and if they really really need an answer RIGHT NOW, I give them contacts who are back at the office.

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I occasionally check on vacation, but I really try not to. I just feel like there should be days I do not check in. I also try to avoid checking email on weekends, but I don't remember the last weekend I didn't check my work email.

I actually hate checking work email from home and I'd really like to figure out how to break the habit.

I sometimes check on vacation, it depends on where I am going and how long. I have stopped checking on weekends just recently and it is a great freedom. I only check on work nights if I am expecting something that needs immediate action.