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You Spend More Than 5 Hours Each Week Checking Your Email (fortune.com)
In a survey of more than 1,000 "white-collar workers" across the U.S., people reported checking their email an average of 2.5 hours each weekday. The average person checks work email more than three hours each day, according to Adobe, which conducted the survey. From a report: According to the report, email is most popular among people between the ages of 25 and 34 -- today's Millennial generation, roughly. That group spends an average of 6.4 hours in their Inboxes each day, compared to 5.8 hours for those between the ages of 18 and 24. For the first time in the three years Adobe has conducted the survey, email isn't the sole most desirable way to communicate with colleagues. Instead, face-to-face conversations are tied with it as the top communication method at work. When it's time for tough conversations, though -- like quitting a job -- face-to-face conversations have lost some ground. Just 52% of those between the ages of 25 and 34 say they would use a face-to-face conversation to quit a job. That number jumps to 77% among those over the age of 35.
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And most people don't either. Maybe 5 hours writing and responding to emails, but that's because they're jobs involve delegation, decision making, answering questions, etc. Like, I would say I spent 30 minutes "responding to an email" today, because I had to go do research to answer it correctly.
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If you do not send emails, you will get less of them.
Also: only send an email that you do not care will be made public during discovery, deposition, and trial. That will make you think twice before sending.
The higher level/pay a person gets, likely the more time they DO spend in that style of communications.
A factory floor guy probably spends 0 work hours using email, except perhaps on their own phone during downtime.
A low level floor manager might spend 2 hours a week.
A middle manager might spend 7 hours a week on emails.
An upper manager might spend 15 or more on emails, and the rest largely on meetings largely reiterating the messages in the emails.
A solo contractor might spend 20 hours, since they're playing all those roles and can't skimp on the communication part between all their projects. And a portion of that time they can't really bill for, which is part of the whole price equation for their time.
As long as people work for people, they'll need to keep in touch.
Ryan Fenton
Check my emails twice a day private and at work - which is 3*5 hours per week -whenever a mail comes in, which, in my case, is roughly 3 times a day. I write an absolute maximum of 10 (ten) emails per week, mostly it's one or two. My *entire* email communication is easily done with 60 minutes per week.
How people can even maintain their sanity with 200+ emails per day is beyond me. My strong suspicion is that most of that is totally superfluous bullshit anyway. An the occasional glimpse I get from full-quote mail threads written by the unwashed masses appears to confirm that suspicion.
My 2 cents.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
There's nothing more condescending - and in this case, completeley wrong - than a headline that tells you what YOU do.
Some of us aren't so vacuous as to be unable to be interested in anything unless it directly affects ourselves personally.
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You need to swing back in and check out Office 365! The cloud based Outlook is amazingly even slower and more laggy than regular outlook. And it freezes up for me when displaying other people's calendars and then flashes them on and off again a few times before stabilizing.
If you thought regular Outlook was bad, Microsoft has a huge surprise in store for you with the Office 365 version!
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