The Money Programme

[sippo]

On Beeb 4 last night. Quite interesting.

BBC iPlayer - Money Programme: E-Mail is Ruining My Life

[mattx]

Have not watched that yet, will do if I get the chance over lunch.....[ yeah right ]
My take on E-mail is........ If I get tooooooooo many [ I tend to give up after around 100 a day ] I just bulk delete it - if something is THAT important you can ring me or come and see me.

[Oops_my_bad]

I can fully sympathise - at our place email is only good for management and these so called "future leaders" that sit in their office all day, firing of 0000's of emails and getting others to do their bidding

[Edu-IT]

I much prefer email if it's about something that isn't seriously important. It's more convenient, for me, than having somebody ring me when I haven't really got the time to listen. At least email I can read it, reply, or call the person back at my convenience. Plus it doesn't cost anything.

[russdev]

Not watched the programme yet but as for email taking over your life rubbish the lack of managing your email is the main issue.

If you manage your email then it can be fine (this comes someone who gets a lot of email per day). Managing it means if you can check about 3 times a day only then do . I except that need for some people might need access all the while (for example those who helpdesk comes into email) in which case they should go into separate box or folder from all other email. That is just one thing but that one move helps no end.



Russ

[localzuk]

I get between 50 and 150 emails a day, and have no issue keeping on top of it.

Support requests go onto the helpdesk, supplier issues get dealt with as and when I have time to do it, and other non-specific adverts, white papers etc... usually get deleted if they look useless after a brief scan.

Don't get why some people find email so stressful. It doesn't require you to sit and wait for it, just deal with it in your own time!

[garethedmondson]

Not watched the programme yet but as for email taking over your life rubbish the lack of managing your email is the main issue.

If you manage your email then it can be fine (this comes someone who gets a lot of email per day). Managing it means if you can check about 3 times a day only then do . I except that need for some people might need access all the while (for example those who helpdesk comes into email) in which case they should go into separate box or folder from all other email. That is just one thing but that one move helps no end.

Russ

I totally agree. When my email started getting too much I decided to put a timetable on it. 4 times a day only -

1. Before school starts
2. Break time
3. Dinner time
4. 3:30 when school finishes

During those times important emails are answered first (SMT and other staff), Sales mails are answered eventually.

I did play with the idea of setting an auto-reply explaining that due to teaching I would not be answering straight away. "Please be patient.... and so on".

What I have done is make OWA flag every message as spam. I then spend time going through the spam mails allowing some through and changing the rules. I did this last year and now I would say that one ones I want to get through do and very rarely do I have to add an address to my whitelist.

Gareth