The Cure For E-mail - Small Business Computing

The Cure For E-mail

Jul 27, 2010
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ITBusinessEdge: The Cure For E-mail

Paul Mah reviews recent study on small business employee attitudes to e-mail and provides links to previous posts offering various solutions to managing the flood of messages.


“A new survey commissioned by Intermedia has found that 94 percent of respondents feel that receiving 50 e-mails a day sets the limit between a manageable number and being overwhelmed. And one in five already receives an unmanageable number.

Gender also made no difference in the perception that 50 e-mails or fewer is an optimal number most people can comfortably deal with. You can read the summary of the results here, which also offers some tips to help overstretched workers cope.”

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