{"id":39733,"date":"2023-10-20T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/this-one-trick-could-protect-you-from-email-avalanches-while-youre-working-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:04:10","slug":"this-one-trick-could-protect-you-from-email-avalanches-while-youre-working-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/this-one-trick-could-protect-you-from-email-avalanches-while-youre-working-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"This one trick could protect you from email avalanches while you’re working – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emails are the bane of most of business people’s\u00a0existence.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to know exactly how much time they rob from you, Washington Post<\/em> <\/a>has kindly provided a calculator to give you the \u201cdepressing\u201d truth.<\/p>\n

So how do you achieve what you want as a business entrepreneur while\u00a0\u2013 buzz \u2013 yet another email drops in?<\/p>\n

\u201cJust don\u2019t answer it,\u201d says\u00a0Radiate founder Betty Liu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She points to this unique email management system used by Tommy John chief executive\u00a0Tom Patterson, who set up an\u00a0auto-reply notifying senders he will not be checking emails during 9am to 5pm.<\/p>\n

During this time, he can only be reached over mobile in the case of an emergency.<\/p>\n

While this has given Patterson time back to focus on what matters in his business, Liu put it to the test to see if it could work for for her too.<\/p>\n

After five days, Liu discovered\u00a0that \u201cnot checking email is very healthy”, as well as how very few things are really urgent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realised how often I look at my phone out of boredom or procrastination, and how many precious minutes this habit wastes,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe definition of an emergency is apparently very narrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the downside, however, Liu says, \u201conly bosses can really do this\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI doubt this would fly if you were an employee and your boss saw an auto-reply claiming that you were unavailable,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest problem with this experiment was the massive email backlog I was left with at the end of the week. It took me a whole additional week to wade through them all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0and iTunes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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