25% of working lives spent managing email.

Twenty-five percent of working lives is now spent managing email, and it's only going to get worse, according to a new report on email management in the workplace. Although email has become much more relevant to how we do our work, it was originally intended as an electronic 'post it' note, and never designed to carry out its current ubiquitous and important functions at work. Email management specialists KVS plc, commissioned independent market researchers, Vanson Bourne to examine the impact of email on the working population. The survey involved 240 UK users, working in sales, marketing, customer service and R&D/technical functions across the Finance, Telecommunications, Pharmaceutical and Government sectors. On average, we are sending between 30-70 emails a day, or between 2,000-6,000 emails a year. This accounts for two hours every day, or twenty Five percent of our working life. However, on average we receive twice as much as we send. Seventy percent of email users surveyed say their email volumes have increased 50-100 per cent since last year, and analysts believe the current trend of increased volumes will continue. But its not just the volume of EMails that's increasing. The size of the attachments are getting bigger as well. The KVS report found that attachments vary from 1 kilobyte to several megabytes. However, capacity-hungry attachments such as video clips and voice messages are beginning to be sent around the world--either for personal or business use. And once we've received emails, the report found that we tend to keep it on our PC or in personal files for anything from a month to over a year. www.kvsplc.com