11-13-2005, 10:41 AM
Quote:Even in his sleep, Stever Robbins, an executive adviser, could not escape his e-mail. "I was buried under a pile of e-mail," Robbins, 41, said. "I can't remember ever having a nightmare. For my first nightmare to be about e-mail, that was pathetic."
..Robbins sometimes had to troll through 120 e-mail messages a day, many of them from his boss. "By the time I got done triaging the e-mail, I didn't have energy to do the rest of the work,"
Dealing with e-mail - filing it, cataloging it, prioritizing it - has added hours of extra work a week, much of it done by people in the late evening and early morning.
full article: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/10/b.../email.php