Jake Dunlap texts his wife. Mr. Dunlap, 43, the chief executive of a consulting company in Austin, Texas, has asked colleagues not to overdo it on the work texts. But he is concerned that each buzz erodes the digital boundary between work and everything else. Brace your thumbs for the era of the work text: The blue bubble has put on its best business-casual and joined email and Slack in the sprawling digital workplace. Fans of the work text consider it productive, even collegial; to detractors, it’s outright invasive.

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