Are you receiving too much email?

 

How much email is too much? Email was originally set-up as a quick method of communicating to people.  Now, it can be a bane to society.  The article quotes a startling statistic that mentions that 28% of the knowledge worker’s day is taken up by unnecessary email.  Here is a quote by Timothy Ferriss, the author of  “The 4-Hour Workweek,” he suggests to check your email twice a day.  He says, “E-mail is used as a self-validation tool by people to procrastinate and to re-create activity versus productivity,”

 

 There is even software that is available that bunches emails together during times that have high frequency of emails.