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Back from 10 days' holiday from work...
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:22 am
by GM
And I've got 819 emails to read through...
Admittedly, some of them can be deleted without reading them, but most of them will need to be read.
I consider this amount of emails to be "too many".
How many (work related) emails do you tend to receive on an average day in the office?
My average is between 80 and 90, but has peaked at 135.
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:25 am
by feyd
Guessing here, but probably around ten. Ones that I even read? Four.
RSS fibers, probably 100.
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:33 am
by matthijs
That's a lot.
And I was thinking lately I spend too much time emailing, with around 5-10 emails a day (not counting mailing lists of course).... More then enough for me..
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:56 am
by Jenk
this role.. 1 or 2 a week that get read, 30-40 that are marked as read on sight. The joys of supporting a legacy system that has barely changed for 20 years.. *yawn*
Old role: 130-140 a day was a blessing, sometimes as high as 350 per day.
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:58 am
by feyd
Jenk wrote:Old role: 130-140 a day was a blessing, sometimes as high as 350 per day.
Sounds similar to my father: ~300-400 would be an "average" day. Precious little of that would be spam.
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:09 am
by GM
feyd wrote:Sounds similar to my father: ~300-400 would be an "average" day. Precious little of that would be spam.
That is a hell of a lot of emails.
I hope for his sake that not all of them need responding to

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:21 am
by Jenk
In my old role, those times I received 300+ a day the certainly did need responding to, thus i can easily believed feyd's father needs to respond to all of his, if he has to.
fyi I used to handle service delivery including ad-hoc requests. The main bulk of those mails was the requests and responses to quotations.
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:34 am
by Benjamin
I used to work for a large local telephone company, they would give you a few hours to read through your email after you came back from vacation. That might not seem like much but this place would write you up for being 10 seconds late, so it was actually quite a surprise.