Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are
I got a new job recently after being at my old place almost 15-years. I've decided I'm doing things differently this time. All my work stuff is on my work equipment, all my personal on my personal, and never the two shall meet. I don't have e-mail or slack on my phone. I don't have personal e-mail on my work computer.<p>It's remarkable to me how much this has improved my life. It took some getting used to, but when I'm working I focus better on work, and when I'm not I unplug. It seems obvious yet somehow leaving work behind at the end of the day escaped me before.<p>Also as someone who used to run an IT department, it's shocking the degree that some people fail to realize their work equipment is well works. Personal e-mail on your work laptop, I get it. Your entire collection of photography celebrating the human form in your folder of the company shared drive, why would anyone think that's a good idea?