I had a tantrum in my head today at work about emails. I was on holiday last week, came back to 20 or so emails in one chain which seemed to just be a conversation about something. Others amounted to about 100 in total.
I've just filed them all with the reasoning that if there's actually one in there that I need to act on, the sender would have seen my out of office and will chase me at some point this week if they need to.
I know that puts the onus on the sender to nag and I will read the filed emails at some point to make sure I don't miss anything important, but 99% of mail I receive is a load of wank about stuff that has been covered in meetings, or is just decision making in progress.
I wonder if at some point business culture will just calm down about emails and start treating them as letters, or whether this is it now.
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To have filed all work emails received last week without reading or doing anything with them?
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MrsBertMacklin · 21/07/2015 23:00
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