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human
Do people still consider weekend emails unprofessional?

I’m a grad student trying to schedule a virtual meeting with a professor who asked me if I’m available early next week. I replied in a timely fashion (less than an hour) that I am and let them know that I’m basically flexible for any time. This is for an initial invitation I sent to have them come speak at our school next year (or virtually, depending) for an event. They haven’t gotten  back to me and normally I’d wait a week to follow up but since this is regarding a possible meeting earlier in the week, is it rude to follow up with them on a weekend? I’m used to getting emails from professors at my school on weekends, but I don’t know if it comes off as unprofessional when it’s someone outside of your campus? Just need to know if I’m overthinking this.
gpt
An initial email over the weekend is fine because they can just do it Monday, but a reminder over the weekend can be both 1) annoying because it implies they should be working on the weekend and 2) counter-productive because if they are offline for the weekend, your email could be buried by Monday morning and they may actually get to it later than if you had just emailed on Monday.