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Drowning in e-mail? You’re not alone.February 14, 2012 – 7:41 pm |
 Damjan Dano |
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Another awesome infographic on the topic of e-mail communication, developed by the Boomerang for Gmail tool that helps you schedule an email to be sent later.
The infographic shares insights from 5 million analyzed e-mails and explains that the average e-mail user received 147 messages every day, and spends around 2 hours on e-mail daily. Which is a lot of time!
Many other interesting details worth reading are included in this graphic:
Couple months ago I’ve read an interesting and controversial article in the news about a former French finance minister, now CEO of Atos Origin, one of the largest IT companies in France, who gave it’s employees 18 months to adapt a practice of not communicating via e-mail.
After the deadline, the company will only communicate via phone, IM chat and in person communication.
The decision by the executive Tiery Breton was made after analyzing over 200 company e-mails and concluding that only 10% of the e-mails are valid and useful, while the rest are distraction. They also concluded that employees are spending from 5-20 hrs a week only on e-mails,
What’s your opinion on this topic? It’s certainly an interesting discussion. How do you handle e-mail?
