E-mail: Productivity booster or time waster?

E-mail can raise an employee’s productivity by an average of 326 hours a year, according to a recent survey. But productivity can improve even more if you discourage personal e-mail, cut e-mail distribution lists and filter out spam. The survey identified these time-saving benefits of e-mail:

                                                                                Time saved        Time saved
                                                                                (minutes/day)     (hours/year)
Dealing with faxes                                                         28                      105
Dealing with regular mail                                                21                       25
Reducing phone tag                                                       15                       58
Cutting chitchat                                                              15                       58
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