Comments on: Does Your E-Mail Inbox Need a 60-Second Cleansing? http://www.earlytorise.com/2009/02/19/does-your-e-mail-inbox-need-a-60-second-cleansing.html The Web's Most Popular Newsletter Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:45:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Garnet http://www.earlytorise.com/2009/02/19/does-your-e-mail-inbox-need-a-60-second-cleansing.html/comment-page-1#comment-2029 Garnet Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:46:13 +0000 http://www.earlytorise.com/?p=6193#comment-2029 I work in the HR branch of a fairly large government department. Apart from the 'work' that arrives in paper format, E-mails entail at least half of my working day. It is impossible NOT to deal with them on an ongoing basis throughout the day. If I looked at them just once or twice on a trial basis during day one, I would have so many to deal with when I returned the next day that that day would be lost to having to answer just those that had come in and were ignored the previous day. Forget trying to deal with any paperwork! My work involves all manner of details relating to the Salary and benefits of employees from the time they are first hired, right through to when they Retire and I have to provide everything relating to that. Ditto for situations involving Leave Without Pay. And because I work with deadlines involving Pay, I need to know when someone has suddenly quit or had a term unexpectedly end, or gone on Leave Without Pay. Otherwise, direct deposits of the employee's wages will continue, and embarrassing (for me) overpayments will result. Consequently, I need to examine every E-mail I receive on any given day. I work in the HR branch of a fairly large government department. Apart from the ‘work’ that arrives in paper format, E-mails entail at least half of my working day. It is impossible NOT to deal with them on an ongoing basis throughout the day. If I looked at them just once or twice on a trial basis during day one, I would have so many to deal with when I returned the next day that that day would be lost to having to answer just those that had come in and were ignored the previous day. Forget trying to deal with any paperwork!

My work involves all manner of details relating to the Salary and benefits of employees from the time they are first hired, right through to when they Retire and I have to provide everything relating to that. Ditto for situations involving Leave Without Pay. And because I work with deadlines involving Pay, I need to know when someone has suddenly quit or had a term unexpectedly end, or gone on Leave Without Pay. Otherwise, direct deposits of the employee’s wages will continue, and embarrassing (for me) overpayments will result.

Consequently, I need to examine every E-mail I receive on any given day.

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