The Freedom of Not Checking My Email While on Vacation
Does the idea of taking a vacation and not checking your email give you anxiety? After returning from a 10-day vacation to Peru, I want to bust a common myth in the corporate world. We are conditioned to believe if we entirely disconnect from our devices that the world will fall apart without us creating more stress upon our return to the office. So we check emails and respond to non-emergencies despite our out of office that says we are unavailable. We spend our mental energ