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Friday, November 09, 2007

When e-mail becomes your workplace master

When e-mail becomes your workplace master
Every morning when he flips on his office computer, Thomas Boston rips with a fury into the hundreds of e-mails that have silently invaded his computer's inbox. But for every one he kills, reinforcements quickly pop up. "E-mail is the Trojan horse of office productivity," says Boston, an economics professor at Georgia Tech and owner of the EuQuant research firm. "Most people I know spend more time checking e-mails than reading for knowledge or pleasure. I can easily spend three hours each day on e-mail-related tasks." Like the giant wooden horse of Greek mythology, e-mail is widely seen as a benevolent helper, a godsend that helps us communicate quickly and easily with people all over the world. But experts say it has a costly downside.

 



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