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22 Sep 08

Email becomes a dangerous distraction - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au

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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