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Email
Productivity Expert Declares “Clean Out Your Inbox Week”
Help
Your Employees Take Their First Steps Toward Inbox Detox
READING, PA. (January 3, 2008)―Every
January, we set personal goals and attempt to make a fresh start
and begin the New Year with our best foot forward in both our
personal and professional lives. In the spirit of this fresh
start, email productivity expert Marsha Egan is challenging
businesses everywhere to take control of their email overwhelm
by participating in “Clean Out Your Inbox Week.”
In the summer of 2007,
AOL’s survey on email usage found that America’s dependence on
email has doubled in the past three years, and Ferris Research
indicates that there will be over 934 million business email
users by 2010. This is just part of the reason that Egan has
declared the week of Jan. 28 – Feb. 1 to be “Clean Out Your
Inbox Week.”
Egan suggests that,
between reading, responding, and recovery time, the average
email interruption takes four minutes of work time. If a worker
receives an average of 15 email interruptions per day, that’s
one hour of time lost to email interruptions. If that worker is
part of a 20-person department, that’s 20 hours of work time
lost per day. If the employees average $20 per hour,
that’s a loss of worker productivity measuring $400 per day―or
$2000 per week.
“Email
is an effective communication tool that businesses rely upon
more and more,” says Egan,
CEO of The Egan Group,
Inc. “However, we have developed a dependency to email that saps
productivity. Many people can’t keep up with their inboxes and
simply declare email bankruptcy.”
“Clean Out Your Inbox
Week” is an implementation eKit authored by Egan that shows
businesses just how much productivity they can recover―and how
much they can enhance their bottom line―by helping their
employees to implement email best practices.
The eKit provides a
complete intracompany rollout, launching a corporately sponsored
“Clean Out Your Inbox Week” campaign. The kit is divided into
two parts: Part One illustrates just how much email addiction
and email mismanagement affects the productivity and bottom line
of a given business―and the results are staggering. Part
Two then demonstrates
to companies a practical solution for how to run a successful
“Clean Out Your Inbox Week” campaign, from concept to launch to
the evaluation phase. The eKit also comes complete with
resources, such as sample press releases, posters, and company
announcements, as well as a suggested timeline for the
initiative.
“There is a cure for
our current email e-ddiction,” Egan says. “If you practice
productive email habits, you will not only loosen the grip email
has on you, but you will also reclaim hours of productive time
every day."
For more information on “Clean Out Your Inbox
Week” visit EganEmailSolutions.com/inboxweek.html. To schedule
an interview with Marsha Egan, contact TK Hall at 617-717-8294
or via email at
TK@IctusInitiative.com.
Marsha Egan, CPCU, PCC, is CEO of the Egan Group,
Inc., Reading PA. An ICF Certified Professional Coach and an
internationally recognized public speaker, she is a leading
authority on email productivity. She works with forward
thinking organizations that want to create a profit-rich email
culture. Her recently released ebooks, Help! I’ve Fallen into My
Inbox and Can’t Climb Out and Reclaim Your Workplace
Productivity and web based e-learning tool, “Email Savvy:
Enhancing Personal Productivity” can be found at
EganEmailSolutions.com.
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