There's nothing more daunting at the beginning of the day than sitting down to an endless stream of emails that have flooded in overnight.
And while many deal with every request as it arrives in a bid to 'stay on top of things', this can actually make you less productive.
Speaking to My Domaine, productivity expert Laura Vanderkam shared her tips for tackling this task in less time without the need for an empty inbox.
There's nothing more daunting at the beginning of the day than sitting down to what seems like an endless stream of email that's flooded in overnight (stock image)
Don't deal with email first thing
Email tends to be one of the first things you give attention to when you sit down at your desk.
And while ploughing your way through these might feel like wiping the slate clean, according to Ms Vanderkam, this isn't necessarily the best use of your time.
Instead, she suggests scanning email for anything urgent first then making time later in the morning to deal with any new tasks.
'Glance at your emails as you're about to get out the door - or on public transit or while parked in the garage at your office to make sure there's nothing urgent,' the author of Off The Clock told the publication.
Your email tab doesn't always need to be open
According to Forbes, email occupies 23 per cent of an average employee's workday, and that average employee checks his or her email 36 times an hour.
The impact on productivity then is enormous, especially if you need sustained concentration to attend to a difficult task.
To counter this, Ms Vanderkam said it's better to work with a closed email tab for a period of time or take a break from a task in order to check for updates.
'Feel free to open the tab frequently, but make sure you're consciously choosing to open it,' she said.
Productivity is affected by having your email window always open, instead consider limiting this to two times a day in order to regain control (stock image)
Your inbox is not your to-do list
There's a great sense of achievement to be had once an email inbox is cleared, but does this actually contribute to your productivity in any real sense?
Ms Vanderkam takes the view email is a tool to do your job, not the job itself and while some email will require attention not everything needs to be treated as a priority.
Research carried out by the University of British Columbia revealed that not only is constant email checking stress-inducing but it also fragments attention.
A two-week-long experiment looked at the behaviour of two groups, one who checked email at will, and the other who were limited to checking only three times per day (they had to keep their email program close the rest of the day).
The findings showed that participants reported significantly less stress when they were working under the limited-email condition than under the unlimited-email condition.
'The only way to spend less time on email is to choose to spend less time on email,' Ms Vanderkam said.
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And while many deal with every request as it arrives in a bid to ‘stay on top of things’, this can actually make you less...
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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