With the holiday season upon us, work-life balance (or “life-work integration,” as I am fonder of calling it) is a challenge for many of us in and out of academia. Perhaps the biggest challenge for ...

Ding! You’ve got mail—again, and again, and again. If you’re a knowledge worker, you’re tied to your computer for getting your work done. For better or worse, that means that your email is ...

A recent study has revealed that the vast majority of US adults feel “overwhelmed” by their email inboxes, while a third have admitted defeat and abandoned or deleted them altogether. The continuous ...

Email overload has always slowed down workplace, personal productivity. Consider these examples: You're hunting for the plumber's quote from last year, buried in hundreds of emails. Or you're staring ...

It happened with cigarettes. It happened with red meat. And carbs. And SUVs. And now it's happening with e-mail. The preferred communication channel of millions of Americans is no longer cool.

Last summer, I wrote a blog post about e-mail overload and I shared some ideas I’d collected about how to stop swimming in e-mail. Recently, Jonathan Spira, CEO and Chief Analyst at Basex, wrote a ...

Hate it or love it, your electronic inbox is still a popular point of contact and communication. Here’s how to keep it under control. By J. D. Biersdorfer Email has been known to stress out some ...

E-mail overload is a common corporate phenomenon. Someone makes a single contentious comment or a news item gets everyone fired up and suddenly your e-mail volume quadruples and you find yourself ...

My day is spent running meetings — staff meetings, steering committee meetings and meetings of various kinds of national/regional/local governance bodies. Over the past year, I have noticed a trend of ...

Here are the right (and wrong) ways to overcome email overload. One-Minute Email Triage For Those Kinda-Sorta-Useful Messages A rundown of Unroll.me and other automated sorting services that keep your ...