E-Mail overload? 64,000 e-mails in one year

We all suffer from it - email overload. It just keeps coming and coming...

I thought I'd delve into this and find out just how much time I spend dealing with the never ending digital flow... These are my stats for 2007*

E-mails received... 64,632
Percentage that were junk... 41%
Average non-junk e-mails per day... 104
E-mails sent... 3,787
Sent e-mails per day... 10.4
Time spent answering e-mail... 445 hours

So in other words, I spent 11 weeks out of my year dealing with 100 incoming messages a day, and writing 10 emails. This probably doesn't include the time spent thinking about a response or whatever.

I think we really need to have a global nom@il day. And soon please!

If you'd like to send me an e-mail about this...

*Figures derived from Eudora

If you've enjoyed this post you can receive future musings, as I write them, via email. I post about once a week on average. More techy folk might prefer to subscribe to my RSS feed and I'd be delighted if you do. I'm rather more active on Twitter, have a few pictures up on Flickr, and I tend to keep track of people on LinkedIn and increasingly-less-so Facebook. My day job is running WorldTV.com - a site for doing cool things with online video. Merci.