Filed under: Utilities, E-mail, Productivity, Google
Checking your email obsessively? It's costing you money, time, and probably sanity
Check this out y'all:A NYT article says that Americans waste $650 BILLION dollars over-checking their email obsessively. BILLION. Not Millions. Not Thousands. BILLIONS. Crazier? We waste $650 BILLION dollars trying to get back into the groove of work after checking our email obsessively.
Why do we do it? Are we that afraid of missing something?
Some of us here can say that we too check our email obsessively. Even going so far as to click on the Gmail logo over and over to refresh the page. Does this sound familiar to you? If so, you're apparently not alone.
How do we stop? How do we combat this problem? Do we love email that much? We hear people complaining all of the time about information and email overload, so maybe we're trying to get a jump on controlling it before it controls us?
Many questions and not a lot of answers, but if these numbers from the NYT are true, oh boy do we have to change some things.
First things first.
Stop. Look, and Listen.
- Stop checking your email so often
- Look and notice that Gmail already refreshes itself
- Listen for emails to come in automatically via POP or IMAP
What's your favorite way to catch email? We find that checking email on the mobile slows us down a bit. Unless you get too obsessed with that...can you say Crackberry?
Lets hear your thoughts in the comments.
[via silicon valley insider]
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