How is your email inbox looking these days? Your Teams messages? What about your WhatsApp groups? Do you have 47 new connections waiting for you to vet them on LinkedIn?
Our digital lives can be overwhelming and, as a result, we can miss things.
In fact, I missed this SmallPDF survey on “digital clutter” I received in October because I have, well, too much digital clutter.
I’m always skeptical of surveys, but this one made me feel like they had analyzed my life. They found:
- The average employee has 8.5 browser tabs open while working; 28 percent usually have 10 or more tabs open. (Me: currently 14 open tabs.)
- American employees spend 4.5 hours a week searching for files, emails, or links they have already seen, totaling 29 work days per year. (Me: No comment)
- Employees “check out” when they have too many unread emails. 78 is the magic number for people to feel overwhelmed. (Me: currently 300, but in all fairness, I get hundreds of press releases every week, 99 percent of which are a waste of time.)
I’d love to give clear advice on how to deal with this digital clutter, but it creeps in.
That email should have been a meeting
To keep reading, click here: Take These 4 Steps to Cut Down on Digital Clutter and Focus on Doing Work