It’s a fact. Email is making us slower, less productive and even dumber.

The average employee now checks email 36 times an hour
<https://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Egmark/Home_page/Research_files/CHI%202012.pdf>,
spending a full 13 hours a week
<http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet/the_social_economy>
reading, deleting, sending and sorting emails. Each time we’re distracted
with an email, it takes an average of 16 minutes
<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/chi_2007_iqbal_horvitz.pdf>
(yes, 16 minutes) to refocus on the task at hand. But the news gets worse:
Workers who check email frequently suffer a 10-point drop in IQ
<http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/text.iq/>, the equivalent of
missing an entire night’s sleep.

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-- 
Peterk
Dallas, Tx
Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org
"The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of
laissez-faire, unbridled competition.
They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the
umbrella of federal regulations."
Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978.

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