The average email user received more than 160 emails a day in 2008, according to figures from market research firm the Radicati Group.
Times Online (03/23/09) Frary, Mark
A study by the
University of California at Irvine tracked 36 office workers and found that
employees spent just 11 minutes on a project before an email notification, phone
ring or knock on the door interrupted them. One tool to deal with information
overload is a new plug-in for Microsoft’s email program Outlook 2007, called
Email Prioritizer. It lets you choose not have any email delivered to your inbox
for a specified period of time or until your current meeting ends and lets you
rank the importance of incoming email messages with zero to three stars. Other
products include Google’s Email Addict service; Xerox’s Hybrid Catgorizer that
automatically scans, sorts, extracts and reviews electronic documents; and
website monitoring technology such as WebSite Watcher and Copernic Tracker.
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