Top Five Email Time Wasters

Top Five Email Time Wasters

Stop making these 5 e-mail mistakes and you could save up to 15 work days a year!

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Step 1:

Confusing Subject Lines

People find it frustrating and confusing because they're having to open emails that they necessarily wouldn't open if the person had taken the time to write a clear and descriptive subject line.

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Step 2:

Replying Just To Say Thank-You

90% of people are saying I don't need the thanks. So some people might use an abbreviation, NTN (no thanks needed).

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Step 3:

Urgent! Receipt Required!!

There are certain instances when receipt required is needed there are other times when things are urgent. But to mark every email as urgent or high priority or receipt required is not necessary and can be annoying and confusing to the receiver.

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Step 4:

Replying All, All The Time

If you receive an email and you hit reply all and it goes out to twenty people and then those twenty people hit reply to all, it can compound very quickly into hundreds of thousands of emails. Once you hit reply all, everyone feels compelled to hit reply all.

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Step 5:

Long E-mails

Often just being clear and very concise and direct with the person is often the best way to answer an email.