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A new survey conducted by Hiver shows that millennials feels that their productivity has been hampered by emails thanks to working from home. The constant need to check, reply and read emails has affected their overall productivity, causing them to get distracted from the task at hand.
The survey reveals that 55 per cent of millennials in India feel that their time spent on work email has increased by more than two hours since they started working from home.
The on-going global crisis has disrupted the way people work. Millennials across the country have been working from home for the last 8-10 months. This has led to a change in their usual work routines as well as their email usage patterns.
Almost 55 per cent of millennials in India feel that their time spent on work email has increased by more than two hours since they started working from home, finds a new survey.The survey conducted by Hiver, a Gmail-based customer service .
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The survey shows that as many as 60 percent of millennials believe that long email interactions hamper productivity while working from home.
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As much as 55 percent of millennials in India feel that their time spent on work email has increased by more than two hours since they started working from home in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, found a survey.
The on-going global crisis has disrupted the way people work. Millennials across the country have been working from home for the last 8-10 months. This has led to a change in their usual work routines as well as their email usage patterns, said the survey by Gmail-based customer service solution for teams Hiver.
Time spent on email up by 55% due to WFH, say millenials: Survey
January 20, 2021
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Hiver, a Gmail-based customer service solution for teams, conducted a survey with millennials in India to understand the change in email usage behavior while working remotely during the pandemic.
The survey reveals that 55 per cent of the respondents feel that their time spent on work email has increased by more than two hours since they started WFH.
This comes as the ongoing pandemic has redefined the way people work. This has led to a change in their usual work routines as well as their email usage patterns, as per the survey report.