Hands up if you checked your work email over the festive period? If you have you are certainly not alone. 77% of people surveyed admitted to checking their email “obsessively”.
We are still a nation of people who compulsively check their inbox – in fact shocking statistics by leading email researcher Dr Thomas Jackson proved that 70% of emails are attended to within 6 seconds of their arrival.
6 seconds!
We would let a screaming child cry for longer without checking, but we feel compelled to check – and respond to – our emails as soon as we receive them.
Is it because technology has advanced to such an extent that we are constantly connected to sources of distraction – such as email?
Email provides distraction – from work, from life’s other challenges or from making difficult choices.
But we cannot blame technology – the cause for this obsession is human behaviour – and the solution is behavioural too.
Email training from http://www.emailogic.com – the only proven solution that actually changes human behaviour around email. Make it part of your training plans for 2013 and tackle the obsession
Hands up if you checked your work email over the festive period? If you have you are certainly not alone. 77% of people surveyed admitted to checking their email “obsessively”.
We are still a nation of people who compulsively check their inbox – in fact shocking statistics by leading email researcher Dr Thomas Jackson proved that 70% of emails are attended to within 6 seconds of their arrival.
6 seconds!
We would let a screaming child cry for longer without checking, but we feel compelled to check – and respond to – our emails as soon as we receive them.
Is it because technology has advanced to such an extent that we are constantly connected to sources of distraction – such as email?
Email provides distraction – from work, from life’s other challenges or from making difficult choices.
But we cannot blame technology – the cause for this obsession is human behaviour – and the solution is behavioural too.
Email training from http://www.emailogic.com – the only proven solution that actually changes human behaviour around email. Make it part of your training plans for 2013 and tackle the obsession
