Study: Workers waste 73 days on email

By CLAIRE GORDON

Office workers today spend a lot of time crafting, reading, re-reading, and replying to emails. In fact, a new survey from the McKinsey Global Institute finds that the average “knowledge worker”—someone whose job mostly involves interacting with co-workers, customers or suppliers, spends 28 per cent of their time doing just that. If you work 260 days a year, that’s a full 73 days spent emailing.