Nothing has changed office work as much as eMails. Originally, they were once meant to simplify and accelerate communication processes. But what has become of it?

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Procrastinating agents with addictive potential

eMails cause the most frequent interruptions of modern life. Where is the time to work? And the addictive potential is obviously high: on airfields, it is regularly observed that travelers search hectically for their smartphones immediately after landing in order to check their emails.

Meanwhile, that has eMailAccount developed into a massive stress factor. In addition to the burden of spam, virus or phishing emails, the number of “normal” emails eMails are a danger mails keeps on rising.

eMails make you sick

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We get tons of junk info, unnecessary CC copies, general broadcasts, superfluous replies, notifications from networks or supposedly funny attachments from friends. The flood of mail has increased to such an extent that it not only costs time, but also Stress and causes disease.

More and more People suffer from the growing burden of too much mail and the pressure to fast having to answer. Because expectations in terms of response time are growing: While it was acceptable a while ago if a Companys has responded to an inquiry within 24 hours, the Customer meanwhile, as a rule, an answer within eight hours.

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Nevertheless, no email needs to be responded to within seconds. Our Brain is made for greater things. If you don't want to do anything, at least write eMails. And who wants to do something, must instead eMails answer.

These developments cause companies to have high Costs and are reflected accordingly in the balance sheets. There are figures from Switzerland that state that the productivity of a Company by up to 40 percent when employees try to deal with the e-mail correspondence in parallel with their actual work.

eMails - the end of concentration?

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eMails can cause a veritable craze for information. According to scientific studies, each robs eMail first concentrate for at least 15 minutes. According to the American psychologist Edward Hallowell verlieren People who constantly read and answer new mails, the ability to work continuously on projects.

A study by the University of London from the year 2005 found that our intelligence quotient decreases on average by ten points, if we call through a ringing phone or incoming eMails are distracted (this is more than twice as much as the reduction by four points, which causes the smoking of a joint).

Focus more than 30 seconds?

Niall Fergusson, economic historian at HarvardUni, explained following a Rede of the former Google boss Eric Schmidt in Berlin in 2011 that he now almost obsessively answers about 200 emails a day, not to let his younger son, the daughter Fac, from the Playstationebook-dependent and the older son sends his girlfriend text messages every two minutes.

He wonders if we're in Future nor be able to focus on one thing for more than 30 seconds.

3 extreme cases of eMail-Stress

There are three extreme cases that I have encountered in the course of my work
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