'Always on' | Boss excuses slow email replies saying 'I need time to think'

The immediacy of modern workplace technology has lulled some employees into the false concept that all queries to their bosses should be answered instantaneously. However, when replies are rushed how can bosses ensure that their answers are truly considered?

Whilst some may hastily draft a non-committal reply to get an employee off of their back, one boss recently took to Mumsnet asking whether it was unreasonable for her to take more than a day to reply to emails because she needed “a lot of time to think”.

The charity boss, who wrote her post under the username Cainthetreeallthetime, told the group that she has worked in a senior management position for multiple years, but has only recently come under fire from both her staff and the Board over her ‘disorganisation’.

This had spiralled to the point where, according to the boss, her assistant – who was tasked with managing her inbox and her diary – had recently quit citing her lack of organisation as the key reason.