{"id":659,"date":"2022-02-24T20:49:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T20:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lite1.6.siitgo.com\/blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2022-02-24T20:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T20:49:33","slug":"how-to-cut-the-time-you-spend-on-your-email-in-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lite1.6.siitgo.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/24\/how-to-cut-the-time-you-spend-on-your-email-in-half\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Cut the Time you Spend on your Email in Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.carolineleach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FullSizeRender.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a McKinsey analysis, the average professional spends 28% of their workday reading and responding to email. This equates to an astounding 2.6 hours per day spent and 120 messages received by the average full-time worker in America.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five ways we waste time unnecessarily and how to reclaim it:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Checking email excessively wastes 21 minutes per day<\/li>\n<li>Daily time loss of 27 minutes due to clogged inboxes<\/li>\n<li>14 minutes per day are wasted by using folders to organize and find emails.<\/li>\n<li>Using a mouse to archive emails into multiple folders wastes 11 minutes per day.<\/li>\n<li>Each day, we spend eight minutes reading and processing irrelevant emails.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Email has become the bane of the twenty-first-century worker&#8217;s existence, but by implementing just these five practices, email can be restored to its former glory:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disable notifications and check your email hourly instead<\/li>\n<li>When you read an email for the first time, move it out of your inbox.<\/li>\n<li>Retrieve emails using the search functionality and search operators.<\/li>\n<li>Create two email folders and use shortcuts to archive emails in those folders.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid manually processing irrelevant or less important emails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a McKinsey analysis, the average professional spends 28% of their workday reading and responding to email. 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