Let me be clear: this will have to change. I did a quick math before writing to you. At the peak of activity, I receive up to 500 professional emails per day. About twenty SMS, and about as many, if not double, WhatsApp messages. To which are added: messages via Instagram or LinkedIn, and of course, phone calls – not to mention personal emails, drowned in the mass, and that I had almost forgotten in this count. That's pretty much what "rains" on me every day.
Each message of course expects a quick if not immediate response. Otherwise, the caller will double his sending with an SMS, or even a WhatsApp – to make sure that I am still alive, although I sometimes doubt it myself. The fact that you are busy, working for example, obviously does not cross anyone's mind – is it still accepted? You have to be on deck, always - immediacy reigns, punctuating...
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