Comments on: Weaknesses of E-mail Communication

By: Private

Private — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:34:33 +0000

Interesting..

By: Communication

Communication — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:45:56 +0000

True. Email inboxes have this unfortunate habit to fill up during the day. If I've got it open, it's very tempting to check every now and then what's come in. So, I noticed that if I log out completely of my email account, I don't get tempted. And at the end of the day I'll check what came in.

By: JB

JB — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:52:29 +0000

Thanks for chiming in! New e-mail every 2 minutes can definitely be a distraction. Your set-time approach makes sense from a productivity perspective, I just doubt I'd have the will to enforce it on myself!

By: Communication

Communication — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:04:24 +0000

Great post. An alternative to taking your communication off line would be to manage the time you spend on emails. My own experience with email showed that when I started checking my emails twice a day, within a set time frame, my productivity doubled. In our organisation we check emails between around 8 and 9 am and 4.30 and 5.30 pm. Business communication is also about resource management, eg. time.s

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Recognize the weakness of email (and pick up the phone) | Email A to Z — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:58:33 +0000

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By: Boso

Boso — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:53:52 +0000

Also, email has grown faster than the infrastructure to support it. For what has become an essential part of business communication, any large company has email servers that are struggling to cope.