Open your inbox: 60% working millennials in India are hooked on checking emails

What’s one of the first few things we do when we get up? Reach for our phones and check our new emails. Email is the most commonly used tool for communication and collaboration at work. In fact, a recent survey by Hiver showed that almost 50% of the employees surveyed said they spend at least an hour a day checking emails, including 16.2% employees that spend more than 4 hours on their inboxes.

More than 61% working professionals between the age of 25-32 choose to open their emails every time a new email notification appears, whereas 33% of the employees tend to check their emails every few hours.

The survey was conducted in order to gauge how effectively employees working across different organisations consume emails. Among those surveyed, about 80% are working in startups and 20% are working in corporates. The survey was conducted among 450 respondents in India.


Clean up
Interestingly, while 60% of the employees surveyed agree with the need to clean their inbox time and again, almost 40% of the employees don't wish to clean their inboxes at all. It also showed that employees can often feel quite productive just by having cleaned out their email inbox, despite perhaps not creating any value for the organisation.

How employees check email

• 61% of the employees check their emails as soon as the email alert pops up
• 78% of employees use single email address for work
• 48% of employees spend about an hour checking their emails.
• Only 55% of employees reply as soon as the mail is received.
• 0% of the respondents say that the maximum number of emails are from within their own organisation.