How can the Benefits of Email be Effectively Reaped? — Help us Find Out! 🔍
It probably won’t come as a surprise for most of you that email is one of the most commonly used workplace communication channels today. Despite the emergence of services like Slack, Jostle and other IM platforms, most employees will agree email still plays a major role in their daily work routine — but what benefits does email communication actually offer?
More importantly — how can these benefits of email be effectively reaped?
Two of the more adverse effects of overall increased email usage that may occur are 1) the feeling of being constantly accessible and/or 2) the feeling of “email overload”. Regardless of the amount of emails received, read, and sent, we have to find appropriate ways to manage our emails every day. For this purpose, many strategies on how to deal with emails have been developed. Some people check their inbox for new emails constantly, while others limit that to specific times in the day. Some people clean up (i.e. delete or archive) their inbox frequently, e.g. daily, while others clean up their inbox only occasionally or not at all.
But when should which strategy be used?
So far it’s not clear in which type of context which type of strategy leads to the most effective use of email — and the importance of this topic is increasing with our overall increase in email usage. RWTH Aachen University, which is an Excellence University in Germany, is therefore collaborating with Mailbutler to explore the effectiveness of email management strategies under specific conditions.
⭐️ You can help Mailbutler and the Chair of Management Accounting at RWTH Aachen University to find answers to these questions by participating in our survey here.
To show our appreciation for your participation, RWTH Aachen University will be donating 5 Euros for each fully completed questionnaire to Wikipedia (up to an amount of 750 Euros).
The results of our study will be reported in this blog and in our monthly newsletter Mailbutler Telegraph. If you provide your email address via a separate link at the end of the survey (to ensure anonymity), we can also individually send you these results.
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