When I was working I used to take vacations down around Clearwater, St Pete area or Sarasota and take my laptop with me and my cell phone from work and every day I would take that laptop out while I was on vacation and keep current and keep up-to-date so that when I got back to the office there was no gigantic hiccup because I was gone for two weeks on vacation.
The boss loved me.
But I’m not gloating because the younger people on staff started doing it too and together we all turned into a highly effecient and effective technical team.
Great company.
I believe for years, decades actually, that you need to “be here, now”. This means that when I want a vacation with my family I never took a laptop with me and never even looked at work email. My focus was on my family time. I was never preoccupied with work stuff when on vacation.
My manager when I first entered it in 1983 had a plaque on her wall that said this: “nobody, on their deathbed, ever said,’I wish I’d spent more time at work’”.