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 Send to email | Cost of Obsessively Checking Your Email: $650 Billion a Year* in General |  By Silicon
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 American workers waste $650 billion a year checking email too often, the NYT's Matt Richtel says. Specifically, they waste $650 billion trying to get back to work after checking email too often:
A typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail program more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times, according to one measure by RescueTime, a company that analyzes computer use habits. The company, which draws its data from 40,000 people who have tracking software on their computers, found that on average the worker also stops at 40 Web sites over the course of the day.
The fractured attention comes at a cost. In the United States, more than $650 million a year in productivity is lost because of unnecessary interruptions, predominately nonurgent digital communication, according to Basex. The firm says that a big chunk of that cost comes from the time it takes people to recover from an interruption and get back to work.
The good news: Companies like Google are committed to doing something about it. How? By putting safeties on their email programs. For example: Email Addict, a new feature Google rolled out last week after figuring out how much time Googlers were wasting using Gmail.
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*NYT story originally said $650 million, which, as a reader pointed out, is chicken feed. The NYT story has since been updated, but we should have questioned the figure.
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| Sony Lost Over $3 Billion To PS3 Cost, Pricing Imbalance [Playstation 3] | | Pricing the PlayStation 3 below its production cost caused Sony to lose $2.16 billion in 2007 and $1.16 billion in 2008, the company revealed today. Sony's fiscal 2008 annual report delineated potential risk factors to its investors, outlining that "the large-scale investment required during the dev [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Jun-2008 by Leigh Alexander in Playstation 3 Financial News Original PS3 Sony Top
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| Thesis WordPress Updates and Offers a Weekend Bonus | | I’ve been behind checking my email this week and it could have cost you a great deal….
Apparently the fantastic Thesis WordPress theme (see my first impressions of Thesis here) is running a special this weekend. They’ve just updated the theme with some great new features (see below) but if you buy it before the end [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in Blog Design
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| Ten Tips for Stats Addicts | | Today Dr. Nicole from Kitchen Table Medicine shares her story of overcoming her Stats Addiction and gives some tips on what to do with your time to build your blog instead of checking stats.
Do you obsessively check your blog traffic stats throughout the day? Do you optimistically expect your Alexa ranking to drop every four [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-Nov-2008 by Darren Rowse in Blog Promotion
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| Facebook: Please Let Us Spam Your Email Box |  At least a year ago, we found Facebook's email notification settings page and turned off all of its alerts. Why? We have no interest in getting an email every time someone requests to be friends, tags us in photos, sends us an event invit [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Nov-2008 by Alley In in General
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