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28% -- share of workday spent on email for average professional (2021)

2021  · McKinsey

The average professional spends 28% of the workday reading and answering email.

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McKinsey Primary Tier C
https://diymarketers.com/5-tips-for-a-successful-email-marketing-campaign/ ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2021 Channel: Wayback
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5 Tips for a Successful Email Marketing Campaign
You’ve been thinking about running an email marketing campaign, but what’s going to make it successful? A survey conducted by Statista found that roughly 281 billion emails were sent and received each day in 2018, the figure is expected to increase to over 347 billion daily mails in 2022. And a Harv…
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average professional: 28% share of workday spent on email. Source: McKinsey (2021). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/workday-time-on-email
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