Digital communication platforms have become the daily operating surface of modern work. They make collaboration more visible, but they also make work easier to carry into recovery periods. Research on non-work-time electronic communication shows that after-hours messages can consume personal reso
The rise of online dialogue begins before chat became a daily habit. In the 1950s, computers were room-sized, institutional, and far from ordinary users. Work was usually handled through batch processing. People prepared stacks of instructions, submitted jobs and commands, and waited for a line-p