New Delhi: More than 60 percent millennials in India feel anxious when they see unread emails in their inbox, reveals a survey.
The survey was conducted by Hiver with over 600 millennials in India to understand their work email behavior patterns.
Millennials across the globe today are increasingly getting hooked on to the practice of keeping their inbox empty/near-empty at all times – popularly known as eInbox Zero.’
The survey also revealed that as many as two in five millennials get extremely uncomfortable if they haven’t been able to check their work email for three-four hours at a stretch.
When asked about the first app that they check on their phone upon waking up, 59 percent chose WhatsApp, 29 percent mentioned social media apps such as Instagram and Facebook, and only 9 percent said emails.
The findings also reveal some interesting insights on how emails affect employee productivity. As many as 63 percent millennials agreed that long emails hampered their workplace productivity, and that they preferred them to be shorter and eto the point’. Another 60 percent interestingly said that emails can be a good substitute for workplace meetings.
Ms Kalinga