Too much e-mail! A new IABC survey suggests who is to blame and what we can do about it.(International Association of Business Communicators)

From: Communication World | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

"Too much e-mail" is one of the most frequent complaints heard in organizations today. Among the complainants are IABC members, one-third of whom use BlackBerry devices or other personal digital assistants (PDAs) and say they send and receive more e-mails than any other group of members.

In a global survey of IABC members conducted in August, a majority of communicators said they receive too much e-mail. In a similar survey conducted by NFI Research in July, senior executives had the same complaint, but in greater numbers. In IABC's survey, 47 percent of respondents said they ...

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