It's too easy to become a slave to your email inbox, but doing so can dampen productivity and cost companies real money. A new study, in fact, finds that a typical worker gets 200 emails, dozens of instant messages, multiple phone calls (office phone and mobile phone), and several text messages a day. Those interruptions amount to about two hours per day per employee that could be spent more productively. To earn back some of that productivity, create an email policy that encourages employees to refrain from combining multiple themes and requests into a single email, make sure the email subject line clearly reflects both the topic and the urgency of the message, don't overburden colleagues with unnecessary emails, recognize that typed words can be misleading in terms of both tone and intent, and do whatever possible to facilitate the transfer and sharing of knowledge.

Read more about reigning in email use:
- read the article at CIO Update