Constant need to check & reply to emails affects productivity of working professionals

A new survey conducted by Hiver shows that millennials feels that their productivity has been hampered by emails thanks to working from home. The constant need to check, reply and read emails has affected their overall productivity, causing them to get distracted from the task at hand.

The survey reveals that 55 per cent of millennials in India feel that their time spent on work email has increased by more than two hours since they started working from home.

The on-going global crisis has disrupted the way people work. Millennials across the country have been working from home for the last 8-10 months. This has led to a change in their usual work routines as well as their email usage patterns.


Downside
The survey highlights that as many as 60 per cent of millennials believe that long email interactions hamper productivity while working from home. Another interesting insight revealed in the survey is that 57 per cent of millennials feel the need to constantly check their work email every few hours since working remotely.

More than half (52 per cent) of the millennials surveyed said they now check their email as soon it lands in their inbox, which is up by 10 per cent from before WFH began. The survey also found that over 56 per cent of millennials continuously aim to hit ‘Inbox Zero’ - which is a rigorous approach to email management aimed at keeping the inbox empty, or almost empty, at all times.

When asked about their preferred collaboration tool to connect with colleagues while working from home, 67 per cent of millennials chose a mix of chat platforms and video conferencing tools (Zoom, Google e-meet, MS Teams, Slack, etc), 25 per cent mentioned WhatsApp, and 8 per cent preferred emails.