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Information Overload
Every day I receive Google alerts pertaining to email overload. I am more and more convinced the interruptive nature of incoming email is not only bad for business productivity, it is unhealthy. Constant switching from one task to another and feeling you can’t get anything done is stressful. When I checked the Basex survey (Basex.com, Cody Burke, information overload) it showed email responsible for 66% of information overload. Send less email to reduce the stress in your life and the lives of others. Enjoy a conversation.
Studies conducted by Messagemind concerning email usage in large enterprises, and its effects on the productivity of executives, managers, and knowledge workers, support many of the ideas presented here. Readers may be interested in the study findings, which are available in white paper form at http://www.messagemind.com/resources-whitepapers.php.
The white papers do more than substantiate what many of us intuitively believe about email overload and its deleterious impacts or organizations’ bottom lines and employees’ mental and physical well-being; they also suggest ways by which certain technologies, e.g. dynamic prioritization of the contents of an inbox, can mitigate some of these problems.