Hey Hive, is email destroying your productivity?

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I spoke with Cal Newport, Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University and author of several books, including most recently "A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload," about email and culture.



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I hate email for internal work within a company. Some seem stuck on each employee having their own Outlook and reading and responding to new mails asap. For me, I'm better when I bulk reading mails once or twice a day and tell my boss and most close colleagues they can always reach me fast with a Direct Message on Teams and/or SMS.

It's ok for me to use email to deal with external work (clients, subcontractors etc), but I suppose my inbox has not yet reached the scale where it's an overload. Whenever that happens, I would certainly look to get a Virtual Assistant...

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People at my company sometimes have a hard time understanding that I won't immediately respond to slack, or emails, or text messages, or unscheduled phone calls, or electronic task assignements, etc. My role usually requires me to bury my head into a problem and try to find the subtle cues that will lead me to the needle in a haystack. The only way to concentrate on a single thread for 20-30 minutes at a time is to turn off those distractions.

"... many of the tasks that are distributed throughout the day ... were historically handled by an assistant, secretary ... Is this a cost savings?..."

I believe that many companies are eventually going to start shifting the numbers of higher-paid professionals more towards lower-paid assistants . The exact numbers of each will be dynamic and different for each company. Inevitably, I see it as part of the role of Human Resources to determine how many employees of each skillset will be employed. (queue the union demands)

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Just giving you fair warning....you post lies and un researched politics, twisted half truths and your other leftist bullshit.....I will downvote you forever. I knew you would come back because you are a crypto slut just like everyone else. People like me got cancelled on YouTube , while they worshiped liars like you because it fit the political narrative. Where is you FUCKING OUTRAGE VIDEO as an American citizen against platforms protected By Section 230 censoring a Elected President? That's right soy boy....you only stand up for the rights that matter to you!

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you seriously lost your youtube channel? I cant say im surprised, but at the same time, it kind of proves blockchain will eventually replace legacy media.

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Email is great tool as long as the message is focused and not to long with lots of details.

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