CEOs weigh in on checking emails during vacation

Checking work emails on vacation is almost always a bad move, leading to unintentionally spending hours and hours of time. However, 84% of white-collar workers do it, and more than 70% are triaging messages from three or more platforms. Work-life balance consultant Joe Robinson launched an "Email Intervention Campaign" to deal with issues like "vacation email panic." Robinson advises companies to create defined email policies, ideally ones which give workers permission not to check email on vacation. Mercedes-Benz Group lets employees auto-delete incoming email messages while they're on vacation.