THEY may not be written on tablets of stone but ten e-mail commandments have been laid down in a new "e-mail charter" designed to take the stress out of messages.
Computer users around the UK are hoarding an average of 2,769 e-mails in their inbox
es, according to new figures – and Expert Messaging, a communications consultancy, has laid down ten rules to help office workers to cope with the barrage of messages.
Figures showed 77 per cent of people checked e-mail within the first five minutes of turning their computer on, while the average user will receive 34 e-mails per day – 47 per cent of which do not help them do their jobs. People send on average 24 e-mails per day: roughly two thirds of which are replies, forwards or copies of e-mails sent by others. Only one third is originated by the sender.
Some users spend half their working day "chained to e-mail" the consultants warned.
The ten commandments in Expert Messaging's charter include: "I will make it clear what I expect from the reader"; "I will structure my e-mail to be read as an e-mail"; "I will consider the legal aspects of my e-mail"; and "I will consider any unwritten messages I may be sending".
If only some PR agencies would take note…
FACT OF THE DAY
58,000tnMEMBERS of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) have slashed their emissions by 17 per cent since 1990, the trade body today claimed.
The FDF said the industry has released an average of 58,000 fewer tonnes of per year since 1990 – the equivalent of taking 22,000 cars off UK roads each year.
KILLER QUOTE"MANY people feel stitched up by credit card lenders and there are definitely pockets of bad behaviour. I want them to accept voluntarily a code of good behaviour."
Lord Peter Mandelson, the Business Secretary, threatening credit card companies with an investigation from the Office of Fair Trading
GOOD DAY
Managing PartnersFUND manager Managing Partners has snapped up 18 properties on a Portsmouth street from "overstretched landlords" and is considering buying all 48.
The manager's British Property Opportunities Fund has offers pending on a further ten of the houses.
BAD DAY
Tao Shoulong THE former boss of one of China's biggest textile firms was arrested yesterday while trying to flee the country.
Tao Shoulong, who ran Zhejiang Jianglong Textile Printing & Dyeing , disappeared after allegedly burning the firm's accounting records.
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