How many times do you now see the following or similar in an email signature “I have sent this email now as it suits me, I do not expect you to read, respond or action outside of your own working hours”? Quite often I’m guessing as I know I do. The one quoted above is actually the one that I use and yes, I am as guilty as the rest of you in working late into the evenings and weekends.
But after feeling slightly under the weather this week and noting that Eilidh and Harrie also have been recently, I thought why do we do this? Yes, we care about our clients and we want to give them a great service but does that mean that we should work all hours? So I sent an email around the team suggesting that we do all the hours we want to but in four days, giving us all a better work-life balance.
Therefore, from the beginning of June, Food from Farming will be working a four day week with none of the team working on a Friday. You will get the same great service from us but we will have a much better work-life balance.