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• 13 Oct 08
  

  hubert guillaud

  Une équipe de chercheurs britanniques a découvert que malgré le fait que 64% des personnes interrogées affirmaient ne vérifier leur boîte mail qu’une fois par heure, et 35% une fois toutes les 15 minutes, ils le faisaient beaucoup plus souvent — à peu prè

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• 09 Oct 08
  

  PG Holmlov

  E-mail Human Customer and Society

  • In a study last year, Dr Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University, England, found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email (bit.ly/email2). So people who check their email every five minutes waste 81/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before.
    
    It had been assumed that email doesn't cause interruptions because the recipient chooses when to check for and respond to email (bit.ly/email3). But Dr Jackson found that people tend to respond to email as it arrives, taking an average of only one minute and 44 seconds to act upon a new email notification; 70% of alerts got a reaction within six seconds. That's faster than letting the phone ring three times.
    
    Added to this is the time people spend with their inbox. A July 2006 study by ClearContext, an email management tools vendor, surveyed 250 users and discovered that 56% spent more than two hours a day in their inbox (bit.ly/email4). Most felt they got too much email - by January 2008, 38% of respondents received more than 100 emails a day - and that it stopped them from doing other things.
  • In a study last year, Dr Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University, England, found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email (bit.ly/email2). So people who check their email every five minutes waste 81/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before.
    
    It had been assumed that email doesn't cause interruptions because the recipient chooses when to check for and respond to email (bit.ly/email3). But Dr Jackson found that people tend to respond to email as it arrives, taking an average of only one minute and 44 seconds to act upon a new email notification; 70% of alerts got a reaction within six seconds. That's faster than letting the phone ring three times.
    
    Added to this is the time people spend with their inbox. A July 2006 study by ClearContext, an email management tools vendor, surveyed 250 users and discovered that 56% spent more than two hours a day in their inbox (bit.ly/email4). Most felt they got too much email - by January 2008, 38% of respondents received more than 100 emails a day - and that it stopped them from doing other things.
• 22 Sep 08
  

  Bertrand Duperrin

  In a study last year, Dr Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University, England, found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email (bit.ly/email2). So people who check their email every five minutes waste 81/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before.

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  • surveyed 250 users and discovered that 56% spent more than two
    hours a day in their inbox (bit.ly/email4). Most felt they got too
    much email - by January 2008, 38% of respondents received more than
    100 emails a day - and that it stopped them from doing other
    things.
  • The third group, however,
    reacted negatively to the pressure of email. "That causes stress,"
    says Dr Renaud, "and stress causes all sorts of health
    problems."
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  • • Deloitte's "no email Wednesday" was abandoned after a month
      (bit.ly/email6) and Intel found that there was a "clear
      incompatibility" between the need of the pilot group to communicate
      asynchronously with colleagues and the avoidance of email for a
      whole day (bit.ly/email7).
    • No-email days don't work, says Dr
      Stafford, "because they don't help people to change their behaviour
      while they are actually using email. Once your email is back,
      you're going to respond to it in the same old ways unless you
      replace your bad habits."
• 13 Sep 08
  

  Ash Singh

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• 11 Sep 08
  

  Kristan Hodge

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  • it takes an average of 64 seconds
    to recover your train of thought after interruption by email
  • So people who check their email every five minutes
    waste 81/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments
    before
  • 2 more annotations...
  • • Checking email can be as addictive as gambling say experts.
    • "Both slot machines and email
      follow something called a 'variable interval reinforcement
      schedule' which has been established as the way to train in the
      strongest habits,
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  oracledmt

  Find out some tips on how you can get the most out of email

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• 10 Sep 08
  

  Michelle A. Hoyle

  Back in the early 1990s, email was a privilege granted only to those who could prove they needed it. Now it has turned into a nuisance that's costing companies millions. We may feel that we have it under control, but not only do we check email more often

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