We recently conducted a study among e-mail end users and found that nearly 50% of users report that they suffer from e-mail overload at least ‘fairly often’ – 6% of users experience e-mail overload ...

For most workers, email is an especially destructive force. According to research by McKinsey, the average professional spends 28 percent of their workday reading and answering email. Unfortunately, ...

A computer model called SIMONE, for Simulator for Interruptions and Message Overload in Network Environments described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Simulation and Process ...

Ding! You’ve got mail—again, and again, and again. If you’re a knowledge worker, you’re tied to your computer for getting your work done. For better or worse, that means that your email is ...

After the past year of remote teaching and learning, the often-blurred boundaries between work and life have become even fuzzier. Many faculty have experienced an uptick in emails and fear that ...

With the holiday season upon us, work-life balance (or “life-work integration,” as I am fonder of calling it) is a challenge for many of us in and out of academia. Perhaps the biggest challenge for ...

The fear of Friday the 13th is called "paraskevidekatriaphobia." Luckily for email marketers, there is no scientific term for email phobia -- not yet, anyway. Emails are a daily stress-inducer for ...