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Studies over the past decade, link the rise in musculoskeletal disease to the increased time we spend working at our computers. In 2013 it was estimated that in the UK businesses lost about 30 million days through musculoskeletal related illness such as chronic back, lower limb, wrist and hand problems.
Improve your performance by keeping your whole body energised
Here are ten top tips drawn from talking to a range of medical and related experts (such as physiotherapists, orthopaedic specialists and ophthalmic consultants) to keep you at peek performance and ultimately save time whilst dealing with email (and indeed any technology related task). Click here to read more.
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Tags: Business email overload, Business Performance, Musculoskeletal disease, well being
Inbox vacation
Managing the vacation email overload possess the perennial dilemma of whether or to put your inbox on vacation too. This article looks at how to reduce the vacation email overload. it reviews the pros and cons and of having an inbox vacation. It looks at ways to manage the post vacation email overload. For example, how to pack your inbox properly so that you don’t drown in an email tsunami on your return. It shows you how to have a really email free vacation, setting a safe Out of Office Message what to do if you feel you really must log-in whilst away.
Published in Executive Secretary Magazine March 2017
Tags: email free vacation, Inbox vacation, Managing email vacation overload, out of office message
Email is over 30 years old and hasn’t changed that much since its inception. But over the years we have been letting 
it take over our lives. It started out as a basic electronic messaging system, and we now use it to communicate everything – from the simplest to the most complex messages. This blog reviews some of different approaches to managing email overload and their pros and cons, including inbox zero and the goldfish techniques.
Published in The Guardian November 2017
Tags: Business email management, Business email overload, inbox zero, Mesmo Consultancy
Goldfish syndrome
Who has a better attention span, you or a goldfish? Recent research has found that thanks to constant digital interruption our ability to focus has now been reduced to less than that of a goldfish.
Goldfish have an attention span of about nine seconds. Since the turn of the century ours has been reduced from about 12 seconds to eight. Why? Because we allow ourselves to be distracted by new emails and social media alerts. Top tips on how to improve productivity and performance by not being distracted by new emails etc.
Published in Executive Secretary Magazine July 2017
Tags: email distractions, Goldfish syndrome, performance
Attachment overload
Email attachments can be the bain of people’s lives. Have you ever sent an email only to receive the response ‘where is the attachment?’ It’s so frustrating – especially when the email goes to ten or more people and they all respond this way! Yet more time wasted.
Many organisations still work with mailbox limits, which can give rise to the stressful situation when your mailbox is full, and you can neither send nor receive emails until you downsize it.
This article provides top tips for managing email attachments in order to save time and reduce business email overload.
Published in Executive Secretary Magazine September 2017
Tags: Attachement best practice, Business email attachment management, Business email overload, improve personal productivity