How does the 'notification' function of my e-mail account affect my work?

How does the 'notification' function of my e-mail account affect my work?

The notification function of your e-mail account can indeed affect you work. In some research done by Thomas Jackson, he found that you could process more e-mail by turning off the ding. The preset that we get on the computer shows a little icon in the bottom right when you've got mail, or the mouse may move, or you may hear a ding every time you get a business e-mail, and just like Pavlov's dog, we go to the e-mail straight away. Most of the time, the e-mail that we're getting, sixty-five percent of it, is unnecessary or irrelevant to us. Therefore we're getting distracted by someone else's priorities, it is these that pull us off the work we're working on and those distractions cost us sixty-four seconds per each distraction. It doesn't sound like a lot but when you're processing thousands of e-mails a year, sixty-four seconds per email distraction adds up to a lot of time. So disconnect the ding, turn off the symbols that you get, the icons, the emoticons that happen that notify you that you have e-mail, and you'll get more work done.