How often do you check your work email inbox?

Ask your manager if they want you to sit watching your inbox all day instead of doing work just in case they need you urgently. It's their job to use you effectively after all.
 
Tell them you need another monitor to have your email open on so you can continuously monitor it while decreasing your normal work productivity.
 
Gray2233 said:
You can't guarantee a recipient has received an email unless they respond back immediately, there's a number of factors that could result in it being delayed or your ability to read it being delayed.

If the task was urgent/important he should have contacted you directly.

I'd politely ask him to do so in future, the fault was his in this scenario.
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Pretty much this.

I'm normally always on top of my emails, but sometimes when you're buried in a task, you might not check it for a few hours.
 
You sound like you struggle, tbh, if you get an email outlook shows a little picture of an envelope so it's not difficult is it?
No wonder he was annoyed. He's put you on the useless list.
 
Slam62 said:
You sound like you struggle, tbh, if you get an email outlook shows a little picture of an envelope so it's not difficult is it?
No wonder he was annoyed. He's put you on the useless list.
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I was already doing an important task. I get a-lot of emails that aren’t urgent. Just an phone call or sms would have alerted me enough to the emails importance.
 
Slam62 said:
You sound like you struggle, tbh, if you get an email outlook shows a little picture of an envelope so it's not difficult is it?
No wonder he was annoyed. He's put you on the useless list.
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If you're getting emails that infrequently that you check every time you get a notification, I'd suggest you've been on the "useless list" for quite some time.
 
Bassmansam said:
I was already doing an important task. I get a-lot of emails that aren’t urgent. Just an phone call or sms would have alerted me enough to the emails importance.
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Oh OK fair enough, didn't think of that, I don't get many emails so I'm really excited when one arrives.
 
I normally get a call and then just ask them to follow it up with an email so I've got it written down.
 
In the office I'm normally in meetings so might go a few hours without checking it, but now I'm working from home I check it several times an hour usually because I'll still be sat at my desk during meetings rather than in a meeting room. In fact it's actually a bit of a distraction during conference calls that I'm not heavily engaged with, a couple of times I've had to ask people to repeat a question because I'm got side-tracked reading a mail.

I have a perpetual backlog of emails to reply to, I have some flagged going back months that I'm struggling to get to because I'm no longer commuting so spending less time on processing emails out of hours. Could really do with moving to a 6 day week so I could have a day each week to catch-up on admin without the hopper continually getting refilled.

Anyway agree if something is urgent then as a manager I will seek a positive confirm of receipt, whether that be via phone or IM.
 
Once a day or so. Maybe every 2nd day on occasion.

My response rate is practically non existent. Most work emails I receive are either 1) garbage produced by people in make-work positions, 2) FYI only.

Actually on my work laptop now and my Outlook says I've sent 4 emails since Monday. Received about 145 so far. I'd say about 7 is very relevant to my current activities. The rest is nonsense I just deleted. I also turn off my work phone at 5pm and won't turn it on until 9am the next morning.

If I receive anything that's more than a paragraph or two, I won't read it. I read novels in my spare time, not at work. Luckily we have a new National Executive General Manager (where do they come up with these titles?) that's quite young and he actively encourage everyone to keep emails very short and relevant. The old guy was a novelist that waffled on and on.
 
Not often TBH - once a week maybe to catch up with updates, etc. - if someone wants something internally I expect them to call me even if they email over the relevant information/details/data. I've never had a manager not call me when something is urgent TBH - or at least follow up with me within a short space of time if I don't respond to the email if they wanted to get the ball rolling but couldn't immediately call me/come see me.

In fact last time I logged in to Outlook for work was Monday the 27th.
 
Constantly. It will either be from a customer (and therefore needs action) or a meeting invite (and therefore needs action)

90% of our internal comms are done through Teams.
 
I wouldn't say I check mine all the time because I don't need to - I know exactly when they've come in because my phone pings, then my work phone pings, and then my laptop pings. I can't really avoid knowing I have a new email and I don't want to - 90% of my work is done by email.
 
You're good. Call or come see you if it's urgent. Or even IM if you use skype etc.
I expect my emails to be read within a day typically.
Just apologise, and remind then to call if it's urgent in the future. Due to your "high workload" you often don't see emails straight away.
 
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