🌱 Wellbeing: Delete your email inbox for better disconnection on holidays

No need to check our mail if there is nothing to check, right?!

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Will you be checking your email during your upcoming holiday period?

And more importantly, do you have reason to or is it just a habit?

Read on to ensure you truly disconnect from work during any upcoming holidays (or any holiday break from computer work!) and return refreshed and revitalised.

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Ensuring an effective holiday disconnection approach comes down to good planning. Sometimes, we also need to be dynamic in the approach we take to maximise the quality of our time-off, like "nuking our inbox" on return from any break. Follow these steps below to prepare thoroughly, before you "power down" fully.

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1. List the benefits - grab a pen and paper and write a list of the benefits of full disconnection, personally and for your work performance and productivity. This list will remind you to stay self-disciplined. Come back to this list if you need a boost or a reminder of why you need to disconnect