Are your employees distracted or stressed because of their bulging inboxes?  Information overload is taking a heavy toll on productivity and employee morale according to 1,700 white-collar workers in a survey commissioned by LexisNexis.  

U.S. business professionals said they are spending half their workday receiving and managing information, nearly a 10% increase since 2008.  A majority of those canvassed are feeling demoralized because they can’t manage all the information that comes their way at work.  How do they deal with this problem?  91% said they delete or discard work information without reading it.  90% say the need to search for old e-mails or documents at least once a week and not being able to access the right information at the right time, ends up costing a great deal of time.

Solutions? One associate of mine teaches how to better priortize your in-box via current technology.  Establishing “e-mail free” time at your company may help to alleviate the overload.   Helping co-workers prioritize the emails they send and to who they send them to would also be of help.   Overall, companies need to do a better job helping their employees manage information or there will be more stressful overload to come.

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