You’ve got too much email

There’s a growing backlash against our growing in-boxes. A new crop of entrepreneurs has sprung up with antidotes — some of which create more email.

It happened with cigarettes. It happened with red meat. And carbs. And SUVs.And now it’s happening with e-mail. The preferred communication channel of millions of Americans is no longer cool.According to a growing number of academics, “technologists” and psychologists, our dependence on e-mail — the need to attend to a constantly beeping in-box — is creating anxiety in the workplace, adversely affecting the ability to focus, diminishing productivity and threatening family bonds. The problem has become so severe that a new crop of entrepreneurs has sprung up with antidotes — which sometimes involve creating more e-mail.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-email31-2008jul31,0,4411744.story

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