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Here’s How You Really Get Better at Email
It’s simple: Make rules and enforce them.
The corporate world is in an email crisis; it’s almost a cliché to say it. But despite everyone being aware of the problem, it hasn’t gone away. “We're drowning in a deluge of email and jargon,” said Phil Simon, a professor at Arizona State University and author of Message Not Received: Why Business Communication Is Broken and How to Fix it. In 2015, the average worker got anywhere from 120 to 150 emails per day, said Simon. “It’s growing at about 15 percent per year. So if you do the math, it would double every four and a half to five years.”