but you can also turn off your email notifications. You can choose to prioritize the good life over a promotion or pleasing your boss. You can live with the loss of status and resources that this probably will entail

In many professions, in particular ones that are office type jobs (ostensibly who the author is thinking about) this kind of thinking doesn't lead to just a "loss of status". It means your name is at the top of the list for when there's the next bad quarterly results and so the CEO has to make cuts.