Lunchtime Trivia Wednesday, August 31

Q: It doesn’t sound like much but we spend more than 3 minutes every workday or 245 minutes a year doing this. What is it?

A: Deleting emails.

Works out to 3.2 seconds each one, 3 minutes a day, 735 minutes a year or a full 12 hours  just deleting emails!

Reading and processing irrelevant emails costs us 8 minutes per day: According to data from Sanebox, 62% of all email is not important and can be processed in bulk. But even bulk-processing takes time. The average person opens 20% of “permission mailers” (e.g. newsletters) and spends 15-20 seconds reading each of these emails, consuming more than four minutes per day. Even just deleting an email takes an average of 3.2 seconds, adding up to more than three minutes per day, a small but important reason to unsubscribe and block unwanted emails rather than just deleting them.

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