Series · read in order · 5 parts · ~70 min
When you step away.
Time off costs you after you're back, not while you're gone, and that's what these five parts work through in order. It starts with the read itself: a catch-up digest reports on a period, which is a different job from clearing a pile. Then the four days after it, and why Wednesday carries the weight. Then leave taken inside your heaviest month, where four things have to keep running without you and one still needs a person. That person needs a seat. Two different things get sold as a team inbox, so the fourth part sorts out which one a small firm needs, what a second person can see once they're in, and what the seat costs. The last is the absence nobody calls one: running two businesses, and being away from each several times a day.
- 01
The days you were gone, in one catch-up read
A catch-up digest reports on a period rather than on a pile of arrivals. What one has to carry, and what has to have been happening while you were out. - 02
Your first day back, and the three that follow
The catch-up read takes twenty minutes. The rest of the week is where a week off is kept or spent. What to move first, and why Wednesday is the heavy day. - 03
Covering the inbox for a few days off in your heaviest month
Leave inside a peak period is not a small vacation. The four things that have to keep happening while you are gone, and the one that still needs a person. - 04
Team inbox software, and what a second seat can see
Two different arrangements get sold as a team inbox. Which one a small firm needs, what a second person can see once they are in, and what the seat costs. - 05
The business you are not in today, and who covers it
Running two businesses means a short absence from one of them several times a day. What that costs, what leaks between them, and who covers the other side.