Catch up Fridays during September - seeking your support

On behalf of the Dean's Office

To welcome Spring, and give us some uninterrupted working and thinking time, the Faculty is proposing that we implement "Catch-up Fridays" for the month of September.  As we did in 2020 and 2021, we encourage you for this one day a week, to reduce your meetings, hold off sending emails, and carve out some space for concentration and getting to work on tasks on your To Do list.

The Faculty office will undertake not to initiate meetings or emails unless essential.

While there are no rules for "Catch up Fridays", Heads of Schools support staff to:

• Reduce meetings and emails where practical to do so
• Encourage supervisors to reduce meetings and emails where practical to do so
• Schedule non-urgent emails to be sent on Monday
• Recognise that we can't control meetings/calls from Central and external partners, so some meetings may need to proceed
• Update email signatures and/or out-of-office messages to "MNHS is implementing "catch up" Fridays for September 2022, where we reduce meetings and emails. I am available for meetings Monday to Thursday and I will respond to your Friday emails on Monday, unless urgent."
• Schedule an all-day meeting in calendars on Friday 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 September
• Choose alternative times in the week, in consultation with supervisors, if Friday is not a work day in a part-time role, or if Friday has immovable work commitments.