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How to Cut Your Email Time in Half
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How to Cut Your Email Time in Half

Constantly checking your email is an addiction that's destroying your productivity. Here's how to break the habit.

Stephanie Vozza
Fast Company, 2017
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Fast Company contributor Stephanie Vozza offers five tips for managing emails so that you can significantly reduce the time you spend on emails. Keeping these tips in mind can help you build good habits but will also require a great deal of determination. getAbstract recommends this article to midlevel managers, procrastinators and those who find themselves compulsively checking emails every few minutes.

Take-Aways

  • Compulsively checking your emails stymies your productivity.
  • Set a specific time slot (or slots) each day for working on emails.
  • If you send fewer emails and copy fewer people, you will get fewer emails.

About the Author

Stephanie Vozza writes about business and productivity for magazines, websites and companies. She founded the e-commerce platform The Organized Parent and is the author of The Five-Minute Mom’s Club: 105 Tips to Make a Mom’s Life Easier.

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