Is Your Thanksgiving Holiday Filled with Family and Fun—or Email?
Want to test yourself for email addiction? See how many times you check your email during the Thanksgiving holiday—for business as well as personal. Like Pavlov’s dogs, you may catch yourself clicking open an email every time you hear the “ding” of your email “in-box.”
That “ding” and the related chore devours about 2 hours of every professional’s work day, totaling 28 billion hours a year, at a cost of $650 billion, according to the New York-based Basex, Inc, a research firm.
In fact, Bill Hendrick, reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, did an excellent job of collecting such research and capturing the love-hate relationship white-collar workers express about their email and the associated productivity issues it raises. He quoted me in the article about the biggest challenge most of us face: “There’s always one more to delete, and we let e-email dictate our day.” Click here to read the full article.
Email started as an AID to communication—a way to help us get our job done faster. Today, for many, it has become their work plan for the day. They click, read, respond. Then they schedule priority work in the available time remaining. Wrong move. Unproductive day.
So come on, take the test this Thanksgiving: Is email an aid or an addiction?
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