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Ever heard of Inbox Zero?
For some, it sounds like a productivity-buff unachievable dream. For others, it might sound like a joke considering the volume of emails they get daily.
If you have to handle several high-traffic email addresses, you’ll need to set up and stick with a robust email management system. Of course, one could argue that the easiest way is simply to scrap emails altogether. However, that’s neither realistic nor practical. Even if you move your whole organization to Slack, you’ll still have to interact with the outside world — with emails.
Email isn’t going away anytime soon and certainly not in the workspace. Considering a system to improve our experience of managing email is the next logical step. The email overload brings a tremendous amount of extra stress. Without even considering the time loss, an unorganized mailbox takes a toll on professionals’ well being.
Before we get to the system you can put in place, and the tools you can use to help you keep up with it, let’s consider the big picture: how email became the main workspace communication medium.
Despite the attempts to get rid of email and move on to the next thing, it has become one of the standard protocol of the internet, just like HTTP. It’s the cornerstone of our online identities: we use it to authenticate ourselves on most if not all services and apps.
EMAIL IS HERE TOÂ STAY
With the emergence of OTT apps such as Messenger, Whatsapp, or Telegram, the usage of emails for personal communication might be on the downtrend. Since there is no economic value associated with this questions, statistics are sparse, if any. The overall email usage metrics keep increasing yearly. In 2018, we now have more than 3.8 billion email users with a steady yearly growth rate around 3%:
We observe a similar trend on the activity of the users, with 281 billion emails sent daily and a similar growth rate. That’s around 37 emails sent daily for every human there is on earth, or about 150 000 email total impressive every minute.
THE WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION MEDIUM
While the personal usage might be decreasing, there are other use cases of email definitely on an uptrend such as automated emails and business emails. In the workplace, the email is still the preferred communication method:
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