135,6 miljard emailberichten per dag

Interessant artikel in de New York Times waaruit duidelijk wordt dat steeds meer werknemers moeite hebben om al hun dagelijkse email af te handelen (hoe herkenbaar). In het artikel wordt verwezen naar een recentelijk onderzoek van de Radicati Group. Een paar highlights:

(...) With traffic exploding from 5.1 billion messages a day in 2000 to 135.6 billion messages daily in 2005. (...)

(...) Many employees, both bosses and subordinates, commonly receive 150 e-mail messages a day, consultants say, and some high-powered clients can be peppered with 50 an hour. (...)

(...) Dealing with e-mail - filing it, cataloging it, prioritizing it - has added hours of extra work a week, much of it done by people in the late evening and early morning.(...)

(...) In a recent survey by America Online and Opinion Research Corporation, 41 percent of the respondents said they checked their e-mail in the morning before going to work. More than 25 percent said they had never gone more than a few days without checking e-mail, with 60 percent saying they check it on vacation. Four percent looked at e-mail in the bathroom. (...)