Managing “emails”

Developed by Daniel Rohrer Hansen- s173922

Abstract Email Management generally refers to the systems and methods an employee can implement to make become more efficient when it comes to handling the abundance of email received every day. Email management makes sure that the workday becomes more efficient.

Background

The very first version of what we now know as email was invented in 1965 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) This was a part of the university’s Compatible Time-Sharing System, which allowed users to share files and messages on a central disk (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/email-ray-tomlinson-history). Today about 333.2 billion emails are sent every day (https://earthweb.com/how-many-emails-are-sent-per-day/) and the average office worker receives about 121 emails and sends about 40 emails for business purposes everyday day (https://www.outlooktracker.com/news/how-many-emails-does-the-average-office-worker-receive/). In total it is estimated to exists about 5.59 billion active email accounts worldwide (https://www.outlooktracker.com/news/how-many-emails-does-the-average-office-worker-receive/). Even though many organizations worldwide are benefitting from using email to communicate, research shows that the abundance of mail also can be a course for stress among employees. Multiple studies carried out (https://profjackson.com/email-stress/) indicating that a majority of people have increased stress levels related to email stressors, such as email overload .

Research shows that a business that has a 200-strong workforce on the UK minimum wage would pay its staff a staggering £1.2m every year for reading and sending emails. Email management is to make handling of emails as efficient as possible science has shown that a lot of time goes wasted if sure that emails of importance are seen and dealt with as well as making sure that mails needed for a later time is not forgotten or deleted