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Researchers have carried out a study and found that e-mails have gone from being a useful office tool to a curse that actually takes up huge amounts of work time, The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday.
According to the researchers, the average employee now spends an estimated 90 minutes to two hours a day wading through hundreds of messages, much of which is basically spam and junk mail.
The study by the Radicati Group has found that worldwide email traffic has hit 196 billion messages a day. It is predicted to reach 374 billion per day by 2011.
"Employees're now so deluged with messages that emails have become a broken business tool in urgent need of fixing. There's been no innovation to separate the junk letters from the real ones," Jason Preston of the Parnassus Group, a social media consultancy, was quoted as saying.
A related study by another research firm Telewest Business recently found that emails and telephone habits could reduce productivity rather than increase it and "men are the biggest timewasters at work".
According to the research, the misuse of telephones and emails at work was hindering office workers from doing their jobs, increasing bad habits at work and lengthening the working day.
Out Of 1,468 people questioned, the average time spent each day waiting for or chasing responses to urgent emails and on unnecessary emails was 42 minutes. An average of 27 minutes was wasted responding to voicemails or managing phone calls and 12 minutes was lost trying to locate colleagues, the study found.
this is really an acknowledge fact that the email users have found that sending mail and as well as recieving mail is a wastage of time. but we cannot deny the importance of email as the fastest means of communication earlier sending a letter was thought to be the most hectic task, and to send a mail to any high profile person was thought to be the most daunting and we were skeptical, whether our letters would be accessible to that person or not, but email has made it quite possible, and in this world of fastness mobiles and emails have become an urgent necessity in most of the profession, so what ever may be the case it has to be accepted with its negativity.
nothing new to this story..an age old legacy.. email junkie.. coffee crookie.. and cig bookie.. ;-)
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