Ways to Set Boundaries Around Email by Sarah K. Peck

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6 Ways to Set Boundaries Around Email by Sarah K. Peck SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

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The internet is full of advice about email. Search for tips, and you could spend a few years of your life triaging, systematizing, and organizing your inbox. Yet despite these systems and tools, email still bests us, taking away precious time from other work we’d like to be doing and the lives we’d like to be living. This is a widespread problem: more and more people feel overwhelmed with work and email, and the pace hasn’t shown any signs of slowing.

Email is no longer just email: messages are sent across dozens of platforms, and people now field text messages, Instagram DM’s, Slack alerts, Voxer messages, Facebook inboxes, and more. The world is

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