My situation is similar. 18-year old company. At weekends I check email occasionally, but don't reply until Monday unless it's an urgent issue (which it generally isn't).
There generally should never any need to do any work on weekends unless it's an unusual situation. You're just reducing your overall productivity if you work too much. Having said that, sometimes I do work on problems over the weekend just for the fun of it.
Emails are very tempting. I am on the same boat but, I have been working with a remote team and usually happen to work a lot during weekends because of timezone issues. Working with 5 year old company (remote), bootstraped and I recently moved to Bay Area. Was wondering how it goes with other founders here. Thanks for writing.
For me it is mostly support, so it tends to be questions like "how do I do this thing that is explained in the FAQ that I didn't read"?
If it was questions from colleagues then I might reply, although it would probably depend on the situation, and I certainly wouldn't want there to be an expectation that I would reply quickly to any and all emails. (I don't have any colleagues, so it's not an issue for me :)
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My situation is similar. 18-year old company. At weekends I check email occasionally, but don't reply until Monday unless it's an urgent issue (which it generally isn't).
There generally should never any need to do any work on weekends unless it's an unusual situation. You're just reducing your overall productivity if you work too much. Having said that, sometimes I do work on problems over the weekend just for the fun of it.
Emails are very tempting. I am on the same boat but, I have been working with a remote team and usually happen to work a lot during weekends because of timezone issues. Working with 5 year old company (remote), bootstraped and I recently moved to Bay Area. Was wondering how it goes with other founders here. Thanks for writing.
For me it is mostly support, so it tends to be questions like "how do I do this thing that is explained in the FAQ that I didn't read"?
If it was questions from colleagues then I might reply, although it would probably depend on the situation, and I certainly wouldn't want there to be an expectation that I would reply quickly to any and all emails. (I don't have any colleagues, so it's not an issue for me :)