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Most bosses drown in their inbox\u2014waking up at 5 a.m. to get a head start on the never-ending stream of messages. But Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky can barely remember the last email he wrote. And he thinks everyone in the working world should use their inboxes a little less. Or as he put it, \u201cnot very often.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t know if I write an email a week,\u201d Chesky told <\/em>Time<\/em>. \u201cI respond to emails every day because people email me. But I\u2019m trying to think of the last time I, like, drafted an email.\u201d<\/p>\n

His problem with emails? \u201cI just find it inferior to almost every other form of communication,\u201d he said. \u201cEmail is subject-based. Text message is person-based. Text messages are much faster. It\u2019s contextual. You feel a deeper connection. The person doesn\u2019t have a subject line. When you get a text message, it doesn\u2019t feel like work to respond. \u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, he says that emails feel like work. That\u2019s why he ranks email as the worst form of communication\u2014and would much rather text his 8,200 staffers because he\u2019s more likely to reach them that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think that text is a lot more responsive than mail. Like the notifications pop up right on your phone. If I have a problem, my general philosophy is to try to call someone, text them, meet them in person,\u201d the billionaire boss added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the best forms of communication are in person, number one; Zoom, number two; text, number three; probably email, number four.\u201d<\/p>\n

After-hours work: encouraged by some CEOs, despised by Gen Z and millennials<\/h2>\n

Even if, for Chesky, sending out a text feels more human. For workers, it doesn\u2019t matter where the communication is coming from; any message from a boss still feels like work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he doesn\u2019t see it as a problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has a right to run their company how they want,\u201d Chesky slammed.<\/p>\n

While he tries \u201cnot to text people when I think they\u2019re with their family unless there\u2019s a crisis,\u201d he also admitted that his own work-life balance is probably more \u201cblended than the average person.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And Chesky isn\u2019t the only CEO who doesn\u2019t mind mixing work into his downtime.<\/p>\n

The founder and CEO of Farmer J, a popular healthy fast-food chain in London, told Fortune<\/em> that he\u2019s never turned on his out-of-office auto-reply\u2014even during his honeymoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anna Lundstrom, CEO of Nespresso\u2019s U.K. and Ireland business, echoed to Fortune<\/em> <\/em>that her workforce can reach her on various platforms at any time, from Teams and email to WhatsApp and LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019d always rather know something than not,\u201d she explained, adding that her phone is constantly within reach from the moment she wakes up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Uber\u2019s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has even insisted that sending out emails on the weekend are simply \u201cpart of working hard\u201d\u2014and that he expects staff to respond swiftly in their time off. \u201cIf I don\u2019t get a response on Saturday, sending them an email on Sunday with a question mark: What\u2019s going on?\u201d he said on the Diary of a CEO <\/em>podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Chesky and other CEOs may swear by text for a quick reply. But do it too many times outside work hours, and you\u2019re likely to get a resignation notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Research from recruitment platform Reed found that a quarter of millennial workers would quit if their boss ever contacted them outside work hours, and 59% of 18-to-34-year-olds say they\u2019d be willing to move on to new pastures to protect their work-life balance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

#Airbnb #CEO #Brian #Chesky #reveals #writes #email #week #inferior #texting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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