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Yes, e-mail is ‘real work’ for your ‘actual job’
Rather than viewing meetings and your overflowing inbox as annoyances that impede your productivity, you should be getting better at these essential office skills
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No matter how high or low you are in the hierarchy, e-mail, and chat apps are real work.
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Sarah Green Carmichael
Meetings and e-mail now consume a full two days a week for many knowledge workers, according to recent data Microsoft gleaned by tracking customers’ use of its office applications. Add in chat programs and 57 per cent of the work week is spent communicating with colleagues, while the remainder is spent on heads-down work in programs such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Cue the stories about how little time we have for our “real jobs” and “actual work”.
