Work email: Start by, uh, answering it

Slack's gonna save us all, right? Not so fast. People still need a degree of respect on responding to emails at work.

There are maybe 2,783,491 awful things about work email. It would take me a Stephen King-esque collection of writing books to detail all of the issues therein, but for now we're going to limit it to one blog post on one specific work email topic.

Let's start with a little bit of math on work email.

By the end of 2016, an average of 116.4 billion business …