Workplace chat systems have become the daily operating surface of modern work. They make collaboration more visible, but they also make work easier to carry into private time. Research on non-work-time electronic communication shows that after-hours messages can increase role overload. For chat a
The development of modern messaging begins long before mobile apps. In the early computing age, computers were large, institutional, and difficult to operate. Work was usually handled through delayed computation. People prepared stacks of instructions, submitted jobs and commands, and waited for