When in 2010-13 my inbox became unmanageable after two of the online groups I managed became popular, I changed the way I communicate in writing. I published a statement about the way I treat mail, summarized answers to most common questions, explained my limits in time and qualification.
As I understood afterwards, there was almost nothing significant left to be proud of after years of dedicated engagement in reactive communication one-on-one. Though, responsive publications did not bring expected effect either. The time of one's life can be wasted too easily in faceless interactions.
Office workers spend an average of 2.6 hours per day reading and answering emails, according to a survey conducted by McKinsey Global Institute. That adds up to about 27 days per year.
The findings were based on a survey of “knowledge workers,” which McKinsey defines as “managers, salespeople, scientists, and others whose jobs consist primarily of interactions—with other employees, customers, and suppliers—and complex decision making based on knowledge and judgement.”
Employees spend about 28 percent of their day interacting with their email accounts, the most time of any daily activity at the workplace. Searching for and gathering information comes in at a distant second by taking up 1.76 hours a day, or 19 percent of the workday. - James Sunshine
I believe in deep concentration since I started with serious meditation when I was 17 and practiced it through my early twenties. I love working along, and the projects I choose require dedication for long periods of time.
Gloria Mark of the University of California, Irvine, found that a typical office worker gets only 11 minutes between each interruption ... - Bob Sullivan
A study by Basex found office distractions take up 2.1 hours of the average day -- 28 percent -- with workers taking an average of five minutes to recover from each interruption and return to their original tasks.
Still another study found a group of workers interrupted by e-mail and telephones scored lower on an IQ test than a test group that had smoked marijuana. - Ellen Wulfhorst
It is not easy for me to come up with examples of any serious creative work, for which constant interruptions would be acceptable. If I know that I won't have time to "spread" my ideas in a creative endeavor, I usually prefer to do something less meaningless instead.
...Worldwide only 13 percent of employees say they feel engaged at work.
The science has shown that people are much more motivated by internal, or intrinsic, rewards than they are by external, or extrinsic rewards, like money. For instance, a meta-analysis in 2010 of over 120 years of research found that there to be almost no tie at all between job happiness and salary. - Arianna Huffington
Time of health and lucidity is the most valuable and irreplaceable resource we have, we better invest it wisely.
