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"White-collar workers check their inboxes an average of 77 times a day, according to research by Gloria Mark, an informatics professor at the University of Cali
by scholia 11y ago
"White-collar workers check their inboxes an average of 77 times a day, according to research by Gloria Mark, an informatics professor at the University of California, Irvine. (If that sounds low to you, she found some workers check email far more frequently, up to 343 times a day or more.) The more time people spend focused on email, Mark has found, the less happy and productive they are."
This seems odd to me. I check my email half a dozen times a day. Can't see the point of checking it 10 times an hour....
- 6d0debc071 11y agoDespite checking email what appears to be abnormally infrequently, I wonder how prevalent setups like freehunter's are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10736086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10736086
- joe5150 11y agoI'm curious to know the definition of "checking" here.
- chmars 11y agoMaybe through notifications … many users probably don't turn the default notifications off and get distracted all the times. And on OS X at least, it is tricky (or maybe even impossible) to proactively disable unwanted notifications for your users. OK, instant messaging and social media networks are even worse … in the end, most human beings get easily distracted and it takes some energy to avoid distractions, especially due to messages and related notifications of all kind.
- hollerith 11y agoI was a little hesitant to write this reply because I might not fully understand your comment. In particular, I do not understand why you added the 3 words "for your users" to this next sentence: >And on OS X at least, it is tricky (or maybe even impossible) to proactively disable unwanted notifications for your users. It was possible for me to turn off all notifications on OS X. This next command line got rid of most of them, leaving only the occasional notification from Firefox and maybe some other app asking for permission to upgrade the app. Then installing and using Growl from the Mac app store got rid of the rest. launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist; killall NotificationCenter The only disadvantage I am aware of of turning off all notifications in this way is that when there is a new security update for OS X available, it remains uninstalled (because I remain unaware of its existence) until I manually open the app store. A running app can still get my attention by bouncing its dock tile, but they do not do that often enough to be bothersome, and in the case of my IM client, the bouncing is welcome (because it is how I find out someone sent me an IM and because my IM client can be configured to refrain from bouncing its dock tile for events other than new IMs).
- 7952 11y agoI am amazed that people don't have email open all the time!