As an article on eMarketer from late February 2011 observes that, with the proliferation of mobile devices, web - based
email checked at a desktop computer is only one slice of all email communications.
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.
Don't
check your
email at any other point during the day.
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.
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.
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.
I
check my
emails at set times every day and I also have someone screen them.
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.
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.
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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at all: anal anus ass boob crap damn execute hell kill masturbation murder penis pubic raping (ra - pe is not ok) shat (sh - @t is not ok) sphincter testes testicles — The CNN / WordPress filter also filters your
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.
He's ignored family to
check emails while
at the dinner table and tuned out of actual conversations to tune into Twitter.
If you know that you've given yourself 15 minutes to
check text messages,
emails, etc.
at 10 p.m., it'll be easier to put your phone down
at 8:30 p.m. (And, side bonus — you'll probably be more focused on the messages you're responding to when you have focused time to respond to them.)
I left my laptop
at home, ignored almost all my
emails and only
checked my phone occasionally, which really helped me relax and after a week I felt so recharged and amazing!
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check out the rest of the delicious breads with seeds listed
at the bottom of my post.
On our first visit to the WiFi porch
at the public library, we each rushed through
checking our
email and social media so that we could squat in a ditch and pick blueberries.
I don't have time to go and
check my
email before i go out tonight so thought i could post here and then read the answer later:) I was
at Shoppers Drug Mart last night and saw some hair colouring there on clearance for $ 2.....
But it's more than appropriate for those mornings when you've run out of time
at home to eat and so find yourself sitting
at your desk,
checking your morning
emails while trying not to spill milk on your keyboard.
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.