“A new survey from Xobni and Harris Interactive says 59% of employed American adults check their e-mail during holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. Of the 59%, more than half (55%) check their work e-mails at least once a day, while about 28% check their e-mails multiple times throughout the day.”
Read More:
Checking Work E-Mail During the Holidays? You’re Not Alone [STATS] | Mashable.com | 11.23.10
The Experiment: Participants are asked to perform a complex proofreading assignment and given three deadline scenarios: (1) single deadline, three weeks away, (2) a series of interim, weekly deadlines, and (3) self-paced, interim deadlines. Participants were compensated based on the number of errors they corrected and there was a penalty for missing the deadlines.
The Results: “The way you set deadlines has a profound effect on the degree to which workers procrastinate and even on the ultimate quality of their work.”
The Details: “The worst performance on both counts was turned in by the group with a single, end-of-project deadline. Their work, on average, was 12 days late, and they corrected an average of only 70 errors. The best performance was delivered by the group that was given a series of interim deadlines; their work was only 0.5 days late on average, and they caught 136 errors. The performance of the group that set its own interim deadlines fell in the middle: 6.5 days late, on average, with 104 errors caught.”
Read More:
Curbing the Procrastination Instinct · Harvard Business Review · October 2001
“In a survey conducted for Bloomberg BusinessWeek by the professional social networking site LinkedIn, 63% of respondents cited their notebook PC as the most effective tool that helps them do their job, vs. 22% who identified their smartphone. When traveling, 49% credited smartphones with keeping them connected to the office, while 35% said laptops boosted their productivity.”
“According to the Self Storage Association, there are 2.21 billion square feet of self-storage in this country. That means there are more than 7 square feet of storage per U.S. resident.” [The Best Industries for Starting a Business · Christine Lagorio · Inc.com · May 24, 2010]
“More than one-quarter (27%) are so overwhelmed by their email that they’ve either declared “email bankruptcy,” deleting all their email messages to start anew, or they’re seriously thinking about doing so. Maybe it’s because 20% of users said they have over 300 emails in their inboxes!” [It's 3 A.M. Are You Checking Your Email Again? · AOL.com · July 30, 2008] Source: NAPO
Control Your E-Mail
- Declare Inbox Bankruptcy When Necessary, Save Yourself a Lot of Stress [Clutter] (lifehacker.com)
- Avoid EMail Bankruptcy with Inbox 0.5 (bargaineering.com)
“The troubled economy has prompted a need for empowerment, and they’re finding that the acts of cleaning, organizing and decluttering the home can provide that much needed sense of control. In a survey of our IconoCommunitiesSM panel, 25% of respondents acknowledge that they’ve been more active and interested in cleaning their homes since the start of the recession.” [Spring Cleaning · IconCulture.com · Nissa Hanna · March 2, 2010]
- ScanSnap Takes You Paperless in One Step [Stuff We Like] (lifehacker.com)
- Declutter as You Spring Clean – Just in Case (1-2-3getorganized.blogspot.com)
- Spring Cleaning 2010 (sobeorganized.blogspot.com)
Loading ...