The Average User Checks Email 5.6 Hours Per Weekday

Re:The Average User Checks Email 5.6 Hours Per Weekday by phyller on Monday October 15, 2018 @09:02AM (#18219285)

The stat is from slide 8 of https://www.slideshare.net/adobe/2018-adobe-consumer-email-s... and is clearly ridiculous. The only way the math works is if the 10% of people that are spending over 6 hours per day checking personal email, and over six hours per day checking work email, are averaging really high numbers. Which makes it likely they are filling in their weekly hours, not daily hours.

There is simply no way I would believe 21% of "white-collar workers with a smart phone" are checking either their work or their personal email for more than 6 hours each and every day, let alone the 10 hours a day that would be required to offset the about 50% of people who reported checking less than an hour each day.

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Re:The Average User Checks Email 5.6 Hours Per Weekday by BeetleB on Monday October 15, 2018 @10:21AM (#18219879)

The slide doesn't say 5.6 hours - only Cal Newport is jumping to it. The slide is saying 3.1 for work and 2.5 for home - but not necessarily by the same people - so adding them doesn't make sense.

>Which makes it likely they are filling in their weekly hours, not daily hours.

I disagree. If I look at any one column, it's not hard to make the numbers work out. For example, assume each category is hitting the upper bound (40% are doing 1 hour, 22% are doing 2, etc) - and put 9 hours for the last 10% - you'll get 3.1 hours. Now that is a bit implausible (I took upper bounds of every category).

But going with the other interpretation - only spending < 1 hour per week for the largest group - highly unlikely. In our workplace, a lot of work, sadly, is done through email - 2 hours/day just responding to emails is probably average.

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