Being E-Ready Every Minute of the Day

While flexibility is great, it’s crucial that distributed teams don’t feel they’re expected to work all the time. Managers should set defined office hours and stick to them—that means not pinging people after (for example) 5pm unless it’s a true, genuine emergency.

When you walk away from your current career, be prepared to face external judgment from colleagues, friends, family, and other professionals in your sector. Most people who want change are generally motivated by internal values and priorities others can’t necessarily see, e.g., m...

If you're truly going to take a break, you need to take time off from everything:

• Set up auto reply for your email account. 
• Keep only an emergency phone number activated and leave it with the few people who are likely to be apprised of any worst-case-scenario emergencie...