Don't
check your email at any other point during the day.
Turn off your phone,
check email at designated times each day, and when you get those requests from people who don't seem to get that you're really working (especially relevant if you work from home), let them know that your boss is benevolent but not a pushover.
I check my emails at set times every day and I also have someone screen them.
Even though it's old school technology, email is used more widely, more frequently and more regularly than any other channel: Litmus reports that 91 % of consumers
check their email at least once per day.
As we all know and have experienced, «The Old» — Mr. Bingle, Celebration in the Oaks, Caroling In the Square — must also make room for «The New» —
checking emails at midnight Mass, taking family photos on the iPad, turducken.
Stop Blaming Your Job There are some people with high - risk jobs who have to
check email at all hours.
8:30 a.m. —
I check emails at work while eating my banana and drinking my green smoothie.
While it's tempting to keep
checking your email at night to see who else is interested in you, you might not be giving that special someone the chance you both deserve.
For instance, if they're browsing the web, and feel the need to
check their emails at the same time, they don't need to exit the browser to do so.
Force yourself to
check emails at certain times throughout the day.
Being mobile, however, does not mean you need to be
checking email at 6AM when you get up, or 10PM when you go to sleep.
Speaking on staying on top of the latest job listings; no matter how attentive you may be to swiping down for the latest inbox updates, even the most diligent mobile users can't be actively
checking their email at all times.
I recently hired an assistant and the best thing he does for me is
check my email at 7 am — he's a morning person and I am not.
Not exact matches
Studies show that
checking texts and
emails for even a minute or two
at a time can add up to huge chunks of time every day.
Ursula Burns, chairwoman and CEO of Xerox and the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company, wakes up
at 5:15 a.m. and immediately
checks her
email.
This is before looking
at my phone,
checking emails, brushing my teeth, etc..
For example,
check your
email first thing in the morning, just before lunch, and
at the end of the workday.
I make sure it is the first thing I do in the morning, before looking
at email or
checking messages of any kind.
I begin
at 3 a.m. (the joys of working on a morning television show) and continue to use my iPhone until I head to bed around 9 p.m. I
check email, post pictures and video to social media, stream live video and surf the web.
Researchers
at the University of British Columbia asked 124 people to either limit
checking email to three times a day for one week or click into their inboxes as often as possible.
All those spectators bunched up and using their phones
at once would have a hard time simply getting online to
check their
email, let alone connecting to one another for a massive multi-player game.
If the meeting lead spends the majority of the time talking
AT participants instead of WITH them, it creates opportunity for background
email checking, solitaire playing, and coffee brewing.
In fact, she wakes up
at 4.30 every morning and without
checking her
email or opening the Internet, she takes the next book from her bedside table, and starts reading.
Cole, the group president of FOCUS Brands, the parent company of brands like Auntie Anne's, Carvel, and Cinnabon, wakes up every morning
at 5 a.m. and
checks her calendar, all of her major social media platforms, news sites, blogs,
emails, and any other messages that may have come in overnight.
If you would've told me seven years ago that today I'd be waking up each morning
at 4:45 a.m. to
check emails as the CEO of a dessert company, I would've said, «Are you crazy?
Block out certain times to
check your
email (perhaps
at the top of every hour during weeknights and twice a day on weekends) and then shut off your phone.
If you want to walk out of the office
at 5 pm, stop
checking your
email and answering phone calls
at 4:30.
It's
at work whether we're binge watching the latest season of Stranger Things or compulsively
checking texts or
emails.
Ruby Maldanado, a Medical Assistant student,
checks her
email sent to students that have been turned away
at the gate to Everest College on April 27, 2015 in Alhambra, California.
There's dinner, the usual homework, bedtime routines, and the mini crises that come with all parenting, but
at night I don't
check emails or answer the phone.
God forbid that you look back
at the end of the day and have to acknowledge that you spent hours
checking your
email or surfing the Internet.
Wait
at least 30 minutes to an hour before
checking your
emails and social media feeds.
Put an out - of - office message on your
email and
check phone messages
at the end of the day.
You're also a lot better off if you don't look
at the phone — and start
checking the weather and answering texts and
emails — the moment you open your eyes.
Staffers work from home when they're expecting the plumber, and anyone with a smartphone or tablet seems to
check work
email at night and on the weekends.
So keep that in mind the next time you're tempted to carry on an IM exchange while watching your favorite show or squeeze in a few
emails at the same time you
check out that training video.
The founder of her eponymous fashion label wakes up
at 5:45 a.m.,
checks emails, gets her three sons out of bed, and exercises for 45 minutes.
Ask your partner or kids to change the password on your work phone when you get home
at night, and to enter the password in the morning before you go to work, so you can't
check your
emails overnight.
While I may not wear the same thing every day, I do wake up
at the same time each morning,
check my
email, go for a run, read while eating breakfast, and then get to work.
Smartphones are clearly time sucks, but we also tend to view them as overall productivity boosters - think of how you can
check your
email while you're waiting in line
at the grocery store, call a cab with a couple of clicks, or Google that one key piece of information in an instant.
Even in the absence of explicit expectations that you will
check email or monitor social media on weekends, people will «fall into that because of their own desire,» says Dorothy Kudla, founder of a training and development company, Full Circle Connections, who has worked with hundreds of managers
at companies from BlackBerry to Cineplex Odeon.
Nearly 80 percent said they look
at emails before going into the office and 30 percent said they
checked their inbox while still in bed in the morning.
In fact, more than half of internet users (58 %)
check their
email first thing in the morning — before looking
at Facebook, doing a Google search, or even
checking the weather — and almost 9 out of 10
email users
check their inbox
at least once a day.
Or,
at the very least, don't eat lunch
at your desk every day while still
checking email.
«Yet, so often in my own life, even though the «race» of a workday is over, I continue to «run» — to
check email, answer calls, stress about problems
at the office — when really I should be resting, relaxing, and giving my presence to my family.
As for
email notifications when new comments are added, there is in fact a little
check box
at the bottom of the comment form for this very thing... I believe that if you
check the box to receive updates about comment replies, you should get them....
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EMAIL address and NAME as well — so you might want to
check those
Specifically, they're banning
checking your work
email between the hours of 6 pm and 9 am, making it legally mandatory to leave your work
at work and focus on home while you're home.
There's a box to
check at the bottom of the commenting box to indicate that you want to receive notifications by
email whenever anyone comments on a post.