Office365 - Email 'Quiet Times'

[Techie2000]

A member of SMT has asked me a bit of a random question - her husband works for a company that has email 'quiet times' configured which holds all emails sent within those 'quiet times' before sending it after the time expires/ ends. A good scenario is: staff emailing into the early hours, therefore quiet times configured between 9pm and 8am...

 

The term quiet terms is completely made up - I have no idea what the actual name would be!

 

Does anyone know if this can be / how it can be setup within Office365?

[Michael]

I believe this is more to do with the phone (for example) that receives Push Mail - you can do it on iOS and the latest/newest version of Android. I'm sure this exact question was asked on this forum a few weeks ago!

[Boredguy]

I have the ability on my Android phone to only pull e-mails between certain hours, but it's not an Office 365 setting.

[Steve21]

There's an option to restrict login times to OWA based on location (e.g. offsite) but I think it only works through federated services, as was reading about it with things like US labor law, and that silly french one that came into play about not contacting out of hours

 

But think that's totally stopped, and not just "delayed" as such

 

Steve

[MatthewL]

I only have my emails to set to sync between certain times on my Android but its a topic that is becoming more and more these days. It started a few years ago when some company did this with their BES to stop employees (all Blackberry users) sending and receiving emails to give them down time and spend it with family and not working.

 

It was discussed on here a few weeks ago, cannot find the topic but you want to create some scheduled rule to delay the mail arriving in the inbox on the exchange server, not an exchange expert but I can't see why it cannot be done.

[Edu-IT]

Shouldn't it be down to people whether or not they want to check their email, rather than block it at server level? Some people might be more productive during the early hours.

[MatthewL]

Nothing stopping people sending them but they are just held off been delivered to the users mailboxes over night as such.

 

It was to promote a better home/work balance by the company that initially did it I think. I wouldn't have any objections to not receiving mail overnight but it all depends on what job you are in. I don't think it is as bad in say schools than in the bigger industries, we used to have a lot send over night when I was in the NHS by departments that were back office type departments.

[Techie2000]

Thats exactly what was mentioned @MatthewL , seeing as our school as a lot of staff on maternity, they tend to send emails in the early hours - particularly to management. I think they're trying to promote the work/life balance. Shame its not a feature within Office365 as many companies (and probably schools) would implement it.

[MatthewL]

I've just found the article I was after, it was actually VW that did it back in 2012.

 

Article is here, there was another one too here.

 

I used to be really bad for it when I was in the NHS, not so bad where I am now as we are just a 9-5 place so there is no chance of getting into email conversation late at night but would quite happily do something like this.