Don’t drive your colleagues mad – follow my 5 rules for work emails 🖊️ Simon_Kelner via ipaperviews
tells us that if you want someone to pay attention to your email, the most effective time to send it is between 3pm and 6pm on a Sunday.
Not if you’re sending it to me, it’s not. At least not this coming Sunday, when I will be at Wembley Stadium, or in fact on any Sunday afternoon between now and May 2024. I accept that not everyone is a football fan, but please don’t take the chance that the recipient of your email isn’t. That’s my tip, anyway. But what do I know? I have only been in the business of communication all my working life, and I’m not powered by AI, only by human impulses.
Axios HQ, an American company which does use AI software to help people communicate, has just published the results of its study of some 8.7 million emails, sent under a professional pretext, and concludes that the best “open rate” occurs on a Sunday afternoon.
I accept that the modern world of work, most particularly since Covid, has changed dramatically, hours are much more flexible,. But at the same time the demands for work-life balance have also become more important post-pandemic, and I can see a future when workers in the UK seek the sort of protections afforded those in France, where, for a company with more than 50 employees,
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