On a given day...how many emails do you get at work?

[vi edit]

It's only 1:00 and I'm approaching 200 for the day.

About 15 of them are actually of any *real* importance. *sigh*

 

[Geomagick]

As I do not rely on email for my job I don't get very many at all.

However what emails I do get most are actually spam, from out IT department informing me usually to change a password.

 

[Blieb]

500:2

 

[TechBoyJK]

2,000-3,000 with about 100 being important

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
2,000-3,000 with about 100 being important

Great googly moogly. How many filters/rules do you have in place for that?

 

[Heisenberg]

I get about 20 a day and about 3-4 are important usually.
How do you guys that get so many actually get anything done?

 

[Blieb]

Most of them can be deleted in my case.

Emails about orders or from people saying something is done.

There are even more that I have filtered directly to my garbage or special folders.

 

[shortylickens]

I get a mere 20.
7 of them are exact repeats of another 7. I guess people dont understand what CC means. They think they were the only ones to get this info.
Those original emails also happen to be useless.

The other 6 emails, are also useless. :|

 

[farmercal]

About 20 recieved, 5 needed

 

[DaShen]

4-5, and about 4-5.

Sometimes only 3-4 are important.

 

[theknight571]

While on a big project 20-30/day is not unusual.... during the slow times... 1-2/day... and there have been days with 0.

At one point earlier this year, I went 3 days with no emails, voice mails, pages, or instant messages.

On day 4, I called someone and had them send me something just to make sure it was still working...lol

 

[Zolty]

50-100: around 10% I actually read maybe 1% are actually important to me.

 

[zanieladie]

I work from home. Most of the e-mails that I get contain jokes.

 

[FoBoT]

are you counting real emails from humans? or auto-generated stuff?
most of the dozens to hundreds of auto-generated ones i siphon off into seperate folders and i never look at them.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
2,000-3,000 with about 100 being important

Great googly moogly. How many filters/rules do you have in place for that?

about 15 folders, and i have a rule that deletes a good chunk of the mail when it comes in.

 

[Mucho]

Minus spams ~15: 3

 

[DurocShark]

150 typically appear in my inbox from coworkers or automated systems.

Less than 10% are useful.

 

[iamwiz82]

I had 20 emails of any importance to me yesterday. I don't keep count of everything else, it's a shift-delete to paradise for them.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Well over 200, helpdesk support emails....

 

[AdamSnow]

I get about 200-250 per day... about 75-100 of them are of importance to me...

I have 51 rules setup in Outlook to take care of a lot of my stuff...

 

[Jikininki]

I get at most 20 a day...and only about like..2 are important...to me.

What I hate is when we get an email from an overseas agent notifying us of their holiday off hours...and 2 minutes later someone from HQ forwards the exact same email to everyone again.

 

[wyvrn]

20 a day.

2-3 are important.

10 are organizational stuff

5-7 are employees who spam a list with junk

 

[NatePo717]

About 30/day. All important (tech support). I'm strictly email support right now and the program I support does not get a lot of issues. I process about 400 issues a month.

 

[cirrhosis]

We get on the order on 300,000 mails a day. 0.2% of that are legit emails. Yes, we have filters.

Me? Occasionally a co-worker will send me a chain list or some such other thing. I don't respond to and usually delete these mails. A few mails will be worker-to-woker jokes, conversations that I could usually do in Trillian or GMAIL. Other than that everything I get is work-related.

EDIT: Mails directed at me or with me involved in them range from 10 to 30/day.