The numbers
Say fifty emails a day, averaging two minutes each (reading, assessing, replying or forwarding). That's over an hour and a half a day — eight hours a week. A full workday a week on email, and that's a conservative estimate.
The hidden damage: switching
Worse than the time is the fragmentation. Every notification interrupts your work; after each interruption it takes minutes to refocus. Fifty interruptions a day means you never work more than ten minutes uninterrupted. Email doesn't just cost hours — it crumbles your day.
The way out: not less email, less assessing
You can't stop the flow. What you can do: outsource the assessing. If a system sorts every email and prepares the replies, assessing fifty times turns into approving once a day. The flow stays; the burden goes.
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