Email has morphed into the scourge of the modern workplace.
Do you remember work before email? For anyone under 45 that’s a resounding “no way!” but if you’re in the second half of your career, I’m sure you can recall how work was done before email took over. It was on the phone and in person, using paper and pens, mail and faxes, and at a pace that you had some control over.
It’s been estimated that the average white-collar worker receives about 120 emails a day, or about 600 every week. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, showed that every time we’re distracted by an interruption at work – such as the ping of a new email – it can take, on average, at least 20 minutes to regain our focus. What a deadly combination for attention spans.
We now spend way too much of our workday using our inbox as a default homepage while a never-ending stream of messages fills up our time and headspace.
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