Email clearly remains an essential and popular way of communicating
So how many emails a day would you say you get, 50, 75, 100 maybe more. Did you know that employees don’t open 40% of the emails they receive? WHAT SERIOUSLY I can’t do that, I have to see everyone, what if there was a contract to sign and you accidentally deleted it OOPS
An average professional receives close to 180 emails every day, according to Hiver’s first annual ‘State of Email’ report wherein the data was collated from almost 1,000 email accounts of employees from across companies.
Hiver, a leading email collaboration solution for teams, said it processed 3,00,000 email threads and 4.7 million emails for the report.
emails that are opened, the reply rate is just 16%, Ok I can see that, lots of junk yada yada yada stuff. The report also states that 51% of emails people receive are group emails. LETS PARTY
It also throws light on “irresponsible” Cc’ing which has become a standard in virtually every email for reasons ranging from keeping people updated on specific projects to account for their work with their managers.
Another major contributor to the inbox clutter situation is the unnecessary and excessive forwarding of emails.