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Intranet notifications - are they ruining your organisations performance ?

Photo by mbiebusch Do you have the option for your staff to receive notifications via email from the intranet ? If you do these notifications may be stopping your staff from getting a good nights sleep and working at their best the next day. Christopher Barnes on the Harvard Business Review blog, in his article "workers disengaged" ,  provides evidence of how damaging late night phone/device checking can be on performance the next day. So if you're running an intranet and you allow staff to sign up for notifications or updates when changes are made have you optimised the scheduled tasks and cron jobs so that they don't send the notifications out in the middle of the night ? Sharepoint has this feature allowing people to setup notifications when changes are made to libraries folders and lists they are interested in. Do you modify the jobs so that emails don't go out and disturb everyone's sleep ? How else do the systems you have setup, which run w