E-mail Ouch!

You’d think high end IT companies would have this technology stuff down cold.

Not.

Check this out from CIO Magazine’s article about Intel’s battle with information overload (http://www NULL.cio NULL.com/article/120852/Intel_rsquo_s_E_Mail_Overload_Solution)

Knowledge workers spend about 20 hours a week doing e-mail, and one-third of that e-mail is useless,” explains Zeldes. Worse, 70 percent of e-mail gets handled within six minutes of arrival and the average worker is interrupted every three minutes, according to research. “When you switch between tasks, you incur a cognitive reorientation cost,” says David Sward, a senior human factors engineer at Intel and one of Zeldes’s partners on the infomania project. The bottom line was that Intel’s workers were wasting about six hours a week.

Almost a complete day every week is wasted on e-mail.

At least Intel is trying to do something about it.

And I plead guilty, though I am trying to read my e-mail only every couple of hours just so I can get something done.

Scot

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