[zenpaul]

My personal policy is NO email on the phone and no Slack/group-chat alerts on the phone either. Anyone who matters has my number and can call or text me at any time. That puts the interrupt driven work of filtering out the 99% of non-emergency information on them, where it should be. The only exception to this is if I'm explicitly on call for something specific, but I try to minimize that time.

For email I always filter ALL automatically generated emails (JIRA updates, etc.) to a folder which I generally ignore. Then when I get to the computer to deal with mail I go through everything (from real people) at once a few times during the day. I leave nothing unread or unresponded to, even if it's letting them know it will be dealt with tomorrow.

Seems to keep everybody happy and productive, most importantly myself.