Did you know...

• Over 1.4 billion people use emails globally.
• The average “business” inbox has nearly 1000 emails.
• Over 200 billion emails are sent each day.
• Over 80% of all emails are spam.
• Over 1/3 of business email users feel stressed by their emailing obligations.
• Some email users check their emails as much as 40 times an hour leaving very little time for anything else.

If you’re feeling stressed and overwhelmed by emails, then you’re not alone. Headlines such as “Workers suffering from email stress” and “email is ruining my life” are common place in today’s business magazines as workers and managers struggle to deal with the ever increasing barrage of emails arriving into our inbox.

Not only are we faced with the sheer volume of emails, we are also faced with pressures to reply to emails rapidly. This forces us to continually check our emails throughout the day, interrupting our normal work routines and hence reducing our business productivity. The end result is that some people end up spending all of their work time answering emails and doing very little else.

There is Hope…