Fridays are usually 100-150, the rest of the week is 300-400. Generally 150ish need actual action from me, and the rest are where I need to be aware of what's going on, make sure the team is making progress, step in when escalation is needed. I'm looking to make a move to a role that is more task based and less putting out fires, so that should hopefully reduce!
15-25 a day. I’m a teacher and a lot of them are time sensitive but it’s sort of ridiculous to expect them to be read and put to use or action or whatever that quickly.
Ok I googled slack and it looks awful. No thanks. Looks like fancy MS Teams? I’ll keep email.
It’s kind of like Teams except with a lot more functionality (and therefore so much better). I also like the ability to organize information into threads — much cleaner. And it’s easier to share files. The UI reminds me more of the AOL chat rooms of yore. (ETA: Plus, my coworkers are SERIOUS about different rules for different rooms. It’s kind of annoying but I do like order.)
I 100x prefer Slack over email, but I use them for different purposes. I mostly Slack coworkers while most of my emails are from people outside the company. Slack is more like having a conversation and email is … email.
Ok I googled slack and it looks awful. No thanks. Looks like fancy MS Teams? I’ll keep email.
It’s kind of like Teams except with a lot more functionality (and therefore so much better). I also like the ability to organize information into threads — much cleaner. And it’s easier to share files. The UI reminds me more of the AOL chat rooms of yore.
I 100x prefer Slack over email, but I use them for different purposes. I mostly Slack coworkers while most of my emails are from people outside the company. Slack is more like having a conversation and email is … email.
Yeah it takes some getting used to but I like that I can have everything embedded in one place by topic, group of people, etc. I have folders for different workstreams and then the relevant threads, etc. I agree it's more like old chat rooms but have no experience with MS teams.
Post by SusanBAnthony on Jan 20, 2022 18:57:26 GMT -5
Last job: 200+, most of which I didn't need to do anything with, but I had to scan them to make sure.
New job: 20-30.
It's amazing how much lower stress work is when you don't wake up to email, come back to 20 new or s after a meeting, and come back to thousands after vacation.
If I ever go back to a job like my last one, I'll set up more Outlook rules and just not look at them because my mental and physical health isn't worth it. I'll miss some important things but oh well.
Back in the days of yore when I still worked, I'd get hundreds per day. Probably a hundred-ish that made it into my inbox that I at least needed to read, even if I didn't need to reply.
I had an excessive amount of rules and folders for everything else. Mostly those were emails that were just general status updates on things that could largely be ignored unless things went wrong and/or I needed a specific piece of info. There were also social discussion emails that I'd browse during downtime (but mostly bulk delete).
Post by sineadorebellion on Jan 20, 2022 19:39:51 GMT -5
I have two email accounts at work (a corporate and then a field team) so I get my corporate forwarded to my field team email. Culling out the dupes I think I get about 40-50 emails a day.
Most of our organizational communication is by group chat that is broken down by levels: so senior leadership, into regional leadership, all regional field team members, individual market teams, then specials, and managers are in every single one. Between private messages and group messages, my phone/laptop never stops pinging - ever. I mute notifications for some but it gets excessive and is my least favorite thing about the job.
I feel like is a cross between IM and a bulletin board. So certain things that might have been in email are now an a shared bulletin board.
I don't understand how it isn't exactly the same as Teams. Maybe I'm not understanding this shared bulletin board thing.
My company uses both (talk about annoying!) so I’m pretty familiar with how the two compare. The organization is just better with Slack and it’s more user-friendly. I will say that Teams has gotten better over the years as Microsoft has tried to compete with Slack so the differences aren’t as stark as they used to be. And I do appreciate how VC calls are better integrated with chat on Teams. But Slack also feels fun, while Teams feels like a work tool. Think Outlook vs. Gmail. Yeah, they basically do the same thing but who doesn’t prefer Gmail?
The one I really don’t understand is Discord.
(I don’t work for Slack ha. I just really like it.)
About 200 on average. Busy times ~300. But my job is all about managing documents through various platforms. Most are notifications and can be processed in a few minutes each.
Some will be multiple documemts in an email so can take much longer to download 25 documents. lol. I clear it out every day!
I was out for a surgery for 10 calendar days a couple years ago. I came back to 3500 emails. I almost fainted 🤣 took me 2 weeks to catch up. Very unusual for me.
Today was a very light day and I counted 26. But I’ve only been at this job six months.
Once I emailed a comment to someone “famous,” and really professionally busy, and her auto response was basically “hey, just assume I’m not going to respond, k, thanks, bye.” And after I got over being a little put off about that, I thought the approach was kind of genius. So I’ve tried to adopt that somewhat, and not email my boss back when she gives me a new case. She’ll see when I accept it so I don’t need to bog her down in minutia with my acknowledgement of the acceptance; if we all said “great, thanks!” she’d be interrupted a thousand times a day.
The day I somehow forgot to open Outlook until 4pm I was SO productive.
Maybe 50-60? I am cc'd on a lot of emails by my processors that I don't even open though (mortgage loan officer), I just file them under the client. They are more of an FYI.
I don't understand how it isn't exactly the same as Teams. Maybe I'm not understanding this shared bulletin board thing.
My company uses both (talk about annoying!) so I’m pretty familiar with how the two compare. The organization is just better with Slack and it’s more user-friendly. I will say that Teams has gotten better over the years as Microsoft has tried to compete with Slack so the differences aren’t as stark as they used to be. And I do appreciate how VC calls are better integrated with chat on Teams. But Slack also feels fun, while Teams feels like a work tool. Think Outlook vs. Gmail. Yeah, they basically do the same thing but who doesn’t prefer Gmail?
The one I really don’t understand is Discord.
(I don’t work for Slack ha. I just really like it.)
Well that explains a lot because I'll take Outlook any day, haha.
Ok I googled slack and it looks awful. No thanks. Looks like fancy MS Teams? I’ll keep email.
It’s kind of like Teams except with a lot more functionality (and therefore so much better). I also like the ability to organize information into threads — much cleaner. And it’s easier to share files. The UI reminds me more of the AOL chat rooms of yore. (ETA: Plus, my coworkers are SERIOUS about different rules for different rooms. It’s kind of annoying but I do like order.)
I 100x prefer Slack over email, but I use them for different purposes. I mostly Slack coworkers while most of my emails are from people outside the company. Slack is more like having a conversation and email is … email.
We use MS Teams and I way prefer it to 100s of emails. I can mute conversations that don’t pertain to me and everything is threaded. It keeps files together as well. I’ve seen Slack but haven’t used it in a business setting.
Teams has made my communication so much easier - and so much more ... relatable. I've gotten to 'know' people more in teams chats than you can in email.
Regardless - this is a very busy week for us, but Tuesday/Wednesday was our busiest days. Today I received 85 actionable email and had 15 new (for today) conversations in Teams. These conversations if in email would have been .... 100+ emails or 15 meetings so I love teams for it's ability to streamline my communication.
This doesn't include my Help Desk tickets (50+), and 2.5 hours of meetings, and project work.
I love my job - fucking love it. But it is very communication heavy.
I honestly think that the workload above (minus project work which is nebulous) is absolutely manageable for an 8 hour day for someone who knows how to answer 60-70% of emails that come in.
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I usually end my day with 100, some get dealt with during the day, but oftentimes not since my days are generally packed with meetings that require me to be present and focused. If I work in the evening, I can end the day with fewer than 5 in my inbox. But most mornings I wake up to 20+ and it just spirals out of control from there.
Post by hbomdiggity on Jan 21, 2022 0:59:07 GMT -5
I cannot comprehend 400 emails a day. Are you in customer service? Endless reply-all chains of 50+ people? No spam filter? Even if you only spend 1 min per email that alone is well over 6 hours of “work.”
I cannot comprehend 400 emails a day. Are you in customer service? Endless reply-all chains of 50+ people? No spam filter? Even if you only spend 1 min per email that alone is well over 6 hours of “work.”
I’m a transactional attorney. I have a spam filter, these emails aren’t spam though. I WISH they were, haha, I’d love to see some of them just filter themselves away.
And yes, this is why I hate it and feel it’s unsustainable. Even if I spend just 30 seconds to a minute scanning each message, it’s hours of my day. That’s not even counting those that I do need to reply to or actually contain an action item for me.
I checked my email last night last at 9:45, and woke up this morning at 6:30. In that time, I had 31 new emails. And this is a slow time for me, I don’t have a closing today or any next week.
I can’t decide if I would like Slack. We are a Teams organization, but we really only use the IM feature in my department. The “team” channels and what not aren’t used as heavily. Because of the way things are segmented, I think I prefer it that way.
I also have my own little system where something doesn’t leave my inbox until I’ve completed it. I have a folder for every project and I organize my emails in them. If I had to create a new group in Teams and manage requests that way too, I think it would feel like too much.
Random musings as I’m laying in bed waking up. I really need to stop working so much.
I really hate IM at work. I think because most things I do require time to address (I'm a CPA). Like...I can't run a report in 20 seconds generally. Send me an email, I will address it as I get to it (or not...lol). If you IM me, you're probably interrupting me working on another request and I will forget you sent me an IM because I'm not dropping everything to handle your request.