Today, we get hundreds of emails a week, from promotions to sales pitches to newsletters. Email seems to be the new form of communication at the workplace, with colleagues and bosses emailing about every damn thing.
Managing our inbox has taken over our actual jobs. Employees spend about 28% of their day interacting with their email accounts, the most time of any daily activity in the workplace. If we are managing a project, emailing is making us work less efficiently, communicate less clearly, and waste time sorting valuable information.
Predictably we should understand what’s pulling us down.