The Damaging Facts About Email

Impairs Productivity. It highjacks the workday of many, and dictates the workday of most.

Many employees spend over four hours a day on email (Ferris Research, San Francisco).

And executives receive on average 48 emails per day (Professor C. Cavanagh, University of Western Ontario).

Also, it takes 12-18 minutes on average to reply to a message (Ferris Research).

So if you answer every email, it will take more hours than people have in a day.

Clearly, this costs businesses millions in lost productivity. No wonder people constantly complain that by the time they handle their email, no time remains for their real work.

You personally probably spend too much time on email now, in any event.

A Major Cause of Stress. Health Canada states that email is a significant contributing factor to stress in the workplace, and threatens people's overall health.

It further notes that employees feel that the very thing supposed to give them more time, has, instead, given them less control of their lives. They are now slaves to the keyboard.

(Skill-Set: Compose/Manage Email)