With the holiday season upon us, work-life balance (or “life-work integration,” as I am fonder of calling it) is a challenge for many of us in and out of academia. Perhaps the biggest challenge for ...

Ding! You’ve got mail—again, and again, and again. If you’re a knowledge worker, you’re tied to your computer for getting your work done. For better or worse, that means that your email is ...

A recent study has revealed that the vast majority of US adults feel “overwhelmed” by their email inboxes, while a third have admitted defeat and abandoned or deleted them altogether. The continuous ...

When many workers transitioned to working from home, there was a sense of excitement about all of the newfound perks — sitting in commuter traffic was no longer part of the daily grind, work hours ...

Hate it or love it, your electronic inbox is still a popular point of contact and communication. Here’s how to keep it under control. By J. D. Biersdorfer Email has been known to stress out some ...

It happened with cigarettes. It happened with red meat. And carbs. And SUVs. And now it's happening with e-mail. The preferred communication channel of millions of Americans is no longer cool.

Emails tend to accumulate, especially if you've had the same address for a long time. And once they reach a critical mass, you are likely to have a difficult time finding the ones you actually care ...

“People really are e-mail addicts,” says futurist Thornton May. “So many people have become victims of the tool instead of masters of the tool.” Here’s how some people are, if not mastering the tool, ...

My day is spent running meetings — staff meetings, steering committee meetings and meetings of various kinds of national/regional/local governance bodies. Over the past year, I have noticed a trend of ...