The average knowledge worker receives 93 e-mail messages per day and many are unnecessary. If every knowledge worker in the U.S. were to send 10% fewer messages, the cost of Information Overload would be reduced by as much as $180 billion per year.
Today is the third observance of Information Overload Awareness Day. The Information Overload Research Group has challenged knowledge workers starting today, October 20th to send 10% fewer e-mail messages.
Here are three methods to accomplishing that goal:
Read incoming e-mail messages carefully to avoid redundant emails. Research shows that most knowledge workers only read the first paragraph of any given e-mail.
Don’t combine unrelated topics in one outbound email.
Think more carefully about who is necessary for the cc list. > For every 100 people who are unnecessarily copied on e-mail, eight hours are lost.
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Today is the third observance of Information Overload Awareness Day. The Information Overload Research Group has challenged knowledge workers starting today, October 20th to send 10% fewer e-mail messages.
Here are three methods to accomplishing that goal:
Read incoming e-mail messages carefully to avoid redundant emails. Research shows that most knowledge workers only read the first paragraph of any given e-mail.
Don’t combine unrelated topics in one outbound email.
Think more carefully about who is necessary for the cc list. > For every 100 people who are unnecessarily copied on e-mail, eight hours are lost.
Read more about Information Overload Awareness Day including research data and fasts stats! Are you up for the challenge?