Would You Sign an Email-Free Vacation Pledge? Harvey Schachter - The Globe and Mail
go to original May 16, 2015

As you contemplate your summer holidays, consider using that time for a vacation from email.

That’s the advice of Chicago-based communications consultant David Grossman, who has experienced the joys of unplugging on his own vacations – most recently spring break, while in Mexico with his wife and two children – and wants others to join in. He is asking people to sign an email-free vacation pledge.

If that seems hokey, the amount of time most of us are plugged in during vacations is downright foolish, so you might want to choose hokey – or simply adapt his ideas. “It’s hugely liberating,” he said in an interview.

And if you lead others, consider the value of an email break for your staff, encouraging them to unplug while on vacation. That will, of course, make it even more important you fulfill your own pledge, serving as a proper role model.



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