Quote by Cal Newport

“E-mail inboxes, in theory, can distract you only when you choose to open them, whereas instant messenger systems are meant to be always active—magnifying…

— Cal Newport

“The irony here is that although the cubicle grid structure of the typical office allows many people to work closely together, it has done…

— Steve Prentice

“The biggest problem we face today is “reactionary workflow.” We have started to live a life pecking away at the many inboxes around us,…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus…

— Noreena Hertz

Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited and reedited…

— Ryan Holmes

A lot of times, people find themselves in a meeting where the primary purpose is to receive information, and that's a poor use of…

— Patrick Lencioni

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Workers in government, the arts, and industry report that the sheer volume of email they receive is overwhelming, taking a huge bite out of…

— Daniel Levitin

“Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many…

— Cal Newport

People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.

— Justin Rosenstein

The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people's agendas.

— Brendon Burchard

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required…

— Alan Lightman