Poll: How do you typically handle your Monday morning inbox?
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May 13

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Ian Keith Jones Williams
Ian Keith Jones Williams  Identity Verified
Espanha
Local time: 03:24
Francês para Inglês
+ ...
Usually empty May 13

It is generally unlikely I'll receive any emails on Monday morning as clients are also starting a new week and they are yet to get round to placing any orders for a new translation. It's more usual for me to receive documents on Fridays which need to be translated on the following Monday. Translation is not like working in a 9-to-5 office, which is what the question seems to imply.

[Edited at 2026-05-13 11:13 GMT]


Christine Andersen
Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Philip Lees
Zea_Mays
 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise  Identity Verified
Bélgica
Local time: 03:24
Membro (2020)
Francês para Holandês
+ ...
NA May 13

I only work with customers that are within my own time zone. They typically don't send any requests between Friday evening and Monday morning.

Ian Keith Jones Williams
Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Philip Lees
Zea_Mays
Josephine Cassar
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 02:24
Membro (2007)
Inglês para Português
+ ...
N/A May 13

As in any other day: it’s either empty or not...

expressisverbis
Ian Keith Jones Williams
WolfgangS
Jennifer Levey
Christine Andersen
Maria Laura Curzi
Philip Lees
 
Lol May 13

The days of having numerous work emails to get through on any day of the week are long gone.

Matthias Brombach
Rui Domingues
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
writeaway
Philip Lees
Ian Keith Jones Williams
P.L.F. Persi (X)
 
jyuan_us
jyuan_us
Estados Unidos da América
Local time: 21:24
Membro (2005)
Inglês para Chinês
+ ...
Does this imply one should have a lot of emails in their Monday morning inbox? May 14

My inbox has less emails in the Monday morning than any other mornings of the business week. I usually don't have much to handle in my Monday morning inbox.

 
Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray  Identity Verified
Holanda
Local time: 03:24
Membro (2006)
Inglês para Africânder
+ ...
Friday May 14

I get the bulk of the mails on the Friday, when clients ask if I can do something by Monday or Tuesday... or by Sunday morning.

 


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