In 2015, the New York-based law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Mange told employees it was instituting a new policy eliminating work emails during night and weekend hours—and then revealed the whole thing was a joke. Higher-ups sent out a company-wide email claiming the firm was banning all work-related emails between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., as well as on Saturdays, Sundays, and employee vacation days. Associates were elated to learn of the new policy, supposedly inspired by similar practices currently catching on in Europe until it was revealed just to be a goof. Employees don't like it when their bosses see their work-life balance as—literally—a joke and Weil received a significant amount of backlash. They were forced to apologize in a second company-wide email. It read: “We obviously got this wrong, and we sincerely apologize. We know and appreciate the hard work that all of you do. We have and continue to take work-life balance seriously and are always evaluating ways to improve the quality of life here, given the intensity and demands of the profession.”