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All managers do is email and go to meetings, sadly
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All managers do is email and go to meetings, sadly

People need to use their time better.

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Ted Bauer
Apr 11, 2018
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AMinding my business reading this Dorie Clark article yesterday and right in her first couple of sentences, she links out to this study showing that most managers spend about 4.1 hours/day answering emails. That's a hideous, but completely believable, stat.

Let's assume a workday is 10 hours for this exercise. You're at about 41% of that answering emails.

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