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According to surveys, the average person receives around 120 emails per day in their work inbox, which seems like a high number, but are these emails worthwhile to look at? A portion of those emails are likely replies to other emails in which someone hit the ‘reply all’ button to say something as simple as ‘great work’ or ‘thanks’ which just cause unnecessary clutter in your inbox. Greg Giangrande, career advice expert, spoke with Mendte in the Morning about how you can go about getting co-workers to stop flooding your inbox with unnecessary messages.
“I don’t think there is any polite way; there is a humiliating way to present it and that is all of the mistakes, the career threating moves, the embarrassment that people have had in replying all,” Giangrande told host Larry Mendte. “Usually saying something really derogatory about someone who they didn’t realize was on that chain… that will cure you of doing reply all.”
Giangrande believes we can all take a step toward keeping each other’s inboxes clean: “We all need to do each other a favor and unless you are specifically asked for a response, please don’t.”
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