Way the hell too much of it- and to what end?
I bet if we eliminated email and focused on direct, question/answer/get-it-done mediums like phone calls, we'd gain about 75% productivity, and lose maybe 25%. So we'd be about 50% more productive.
On Tuesday of this week- a pretty standard day- I received 340 emails and sent 127. These totals are a combination of personal and work emails, though work accounts for the vast majority. This total does not include messages that were flagged by my spam filters and not delivered directly to my inbox.
How about you? How much email do you send and receive on a typical day?
posted by Jeff @ 11/14/2008 04:33:00 PM
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At Snooth.com we are all die-hard productivity nuts and email is generally discouraged in favor of IM. Our rule of thumb is that if you email (or cc) anyone they should be expected to reply and it should be worth the interruption. As a startup, our only theoretically limited resource is time. So now I get about 10 work emails per day. At my old job I got about 80-90.
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