# Work & Digital Life

> Email, workplace, texting, phone, video-call and social-media etiquette for people who spend their days on screens and in shared spaces.

URL: https://courteo.us/work-and-digital/

Most of our daily courtesy now happens through a screen: the email that gets a reply, the meeting that starts on time, the group chat that doesn’t buzz at midnight. These guides cover the conventions that make digital communication feel considerate rather than careless.

## Guides

- [Email etiquette: how to write messages people are glad to get](https://courteo.us/email-etiquette/): Practical email etiquette for 2026: subject lines, greetings, reply times, reply-all, CC and BCC, tone, sign-offs and follow-ups, with templates you can adapt.
- [Workplace etiquette: courtesy at the office, in meetings and on chat](https://courteo.us/workplace-etiquette/): Workplace etiquette for hybrid teams: meetings, chat apps, shared spaces, after-hours messages, credit and feedback, plus what research says incivility costs.
- [Texting and phone etiquette: calls, texts, group chats and phones in public](https://courteo.us/texting-phone-etiquette/): Texting and phone etiquette for 2026: call vs. text, reply times, group chats, voice notes, speakerphone in public, and how to stop phubbing people.
- [Video call etiquette: courteous Zoom, Teams and Meet meetings](https://courteo.us/video-call-etiquette/): Video call etiquette for work and personal calls: camera on or off, muting, backgrounds, eating, chat, recording consent and easing video-call fatigue.
- [Social media etiquette: posting, tagging, commenting and disagreeing well](https://courteo.us/social-media-etiquette/): Social media etiquette for 2026: what to post, asking before tagging, kids’ photos, commenting, disagreeing well, harassment and unfriending gracefully.

## Recent Daily Dilemmas

- [A coworker starts talking to me and I still have my AirPods in. Do I really have to take them out?](https://courteo.us/daily/earbuds-in-at-work/) (2026-10-22): Wearing earbuds to concentrate is fine; keeping them in while someone talks to you is not. Take both out (or pause and pull one, then the other) and give the person your full attention, then put them back when the chat ends.

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