Digital communication platforms have become the communication backbone of modern work. They make collaboration faster, but they also make work easier to carry into evenings. Research on non-work-time electronic communication shows that after-hours messages can blur work-life boundaries. For chat
The history of digital conversation begins long before mobile apps. In the period of mainframe dominance, computers were massive, scarce, and difficult to operate. Work was usually handled through batch processing. People prepared stacks of instructions, submitted machine-readable tasks, and wait