What Email Overload Costs Your Company
Each week the waste is: (Not yet calculated)
Each year the waste is: (Not yet calculated)
Dollar value of yearly wasted time:
(Not yet calculated)
That’s just the waste from email. Information overload, poor handoffs, conflicting priorities, and fire-fighting also take their toll.
How many hours does email waste each day?
Be sure to include time people spend:
- Dealing with being CC:d or BCC:d on a dozen messages and trying to figure out why.
- Using email when voice or in-person would be faster.
- Sending or receiving messages sent for butt-covering reasons, rather than forward-movement reasons.
- Decoding ambiguous, incomplete, or vague email from someone in power (someone other than you, of course; your emails are well-known to be complete, clear, and concise).
- Scanning and reading email that turns out to be irrelevant.
- “Multi-tasking” because each email shoves you into a different train of thought?
- Just calming down and re-centering from the anxiety of having a huge inbox backlog.
hours and minutes of each employee’s time each day.
What is the average annual salary at the company?
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How many employees do you have?
employees
How many hours per week do employees work on average?
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