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E-mail is eating up the business hours
E-mail is eating up a large percentage of time in the working business week, according to worldwide businesss adviser Grant Thornton. Countries including the Philippines, Hong Kong, the U.S., and India are at the top of the chart, spending as much as two hours a day filtering through e-mail and responding to it. The U.K. comes in at 1 hour 12 minutes on average, whereas Russia and Greece have the lowest average at around 48 minutes.
There is a correlation between time spent and the type of country. It is thought that the longest time spent using e-mail is in countries that don’t have a well developed infrastructure other than digital communications. This fits for places like the Philippines and India. High usage is also attributed to those countries who use information technologies heavily in their daily business lives, such as the U.S.
Some countries also rank lower on the scale due to their traditional business practices. For example, both Japan and France have lower average e-mail times because they still believe a number of business correspondences should be done in person. Countries like Russia have the lowest average time mainly due to a lack of infrastructure to support digital communication, showing that both ends of the technical spectrum end up losing more time to e-mail (albeit for different reasons).
Wendy Hart of Grant Thornton believes that the time spent dealing with e-mail will continue to rise as countries develop their infrastructures further, but that two hours a day will probably remain the upper limit.
Read more in the Silicon.com article.
There is a correlation between time spent and the type of country. It is thought that the longest time spent using e-mail is in countries that don’t have a well developed infrastructure other than digital communications. This fits for places like the Philippines and India. High usage is also attributed to those countries who use information technologies heavily in their daily business lives, such as the U.S.
Some countries also rank lower on the scale due to their traditional business practices. For example, both Japan and France have lower average e-mail times because they still believe a number of business correspondences should be done in person. Countries like Russia have the lowest average time mainly due to a lack of infrastructure to support digital communication, showing that both ends of the technical spectrum end up losing more time to e-mail (albeit for different reasons).
Wendy Hart of Grant Thornton believes that the time spent dealing with e-mail will continue to rise as countries develop their infrastructures further, but that two hours a day will probably remain the upper limit.
Read more in the Silicon.com article.
