Got 2 Extra Hours for Your E-Mail? - New York Times
Got 2 Extra Hours for Your E-Mail? - New York Times:
"'I quit my job because of the stress, and it had almost everything to do with e-mail,' he said.
...But now that it has become an essential form of communication - with traffic exploding from 5.1 million messages in 2000 to 135.6 million messages in 2005...
..Many employees, both bosses and subordinates, commonly receive 150 e-mail messages a day, consultants say, and some high-powered clients can be peppered with 50 an hour..."
BaseCamp and blogs/RSS are the only ways forward for me...it's becoming a pain in the arse to deal with people who I don't collaborate with using BaseCamp - it has been the most useful tool I've used this year (apart from my mac and omnioutliner :-)
