Should it be illegal for your boss to make you email after work?
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How I Email: Peter Shankman, Author, Entrepreneur, and PR Strategist
Peter Shankman, a media entrepreneur, is best known for founding Help A Reporter Out (HARO), which he sold less than two years after starting it. Shankman is seemingly always on the move — delivering keynote speeches, hosting a podcast, participating in Iron Mans, skydiving, while dabbling in angel investing. With all that going on, he not only manages his own inbox, but finds time to periodically clean out his mom’s inbox too. Here’s an excerpt from the interview
When I am using my email I am going into someone’s inbox and I am asking them for permission to sit there, understanding that it’s on me to make sure that I’m making it as easy as possible for them to do whatever they have to do with the email. If I’m giving them email the right way, it’s respectful to them.