People in Lanarkshire are spending nearly a fifth of their time at work managing their email inbox.
Huge amounts of hours are being killed, with a third of staff spending the equivalent of a day a week trawling through their latest emails.
The eye-opening statistics were revealed in a survey conducted by 1000 decision-makers, which can be found online.
Lanarkshire IT expert David Goonery, of Fix-PC's IT support services, said: "There are so many ways to communicate at work, yet email remains a favourite.
"We seem to have a love/hate relationship with email. The survey shows 61 per cent of people prefer to use email over tools like Teams or Slack.
“But it’s also the tool that we most love to hate. Who hasn’t switched on their laptop on a Monday morning and instantly felt their heart plummet when they’ve seen how many emails are waiting for them?”
The original survey also revealed: 70 per cent of people believe email is one of the biggest productivity drain; 73 per cent say too much time is spent trying to find emails; and, shockingly, 62 per cent of people still keep hard copies of emails – as print outs.
David, whose business was formed in 2004, believes all Lanarkshire businesses should do a productivity analysis and consider clever tools that make it easier to manage email, or alternatives for internal communication, such as Teams.
