Email: Our Greatest Enemy or Best Friend?
Jinfo Article
3rd December 2012
By James Mullan
Abstract
Much is made of how email distracts us from our real work and disrupts our lives, but love it or hate it email is here to stay. It's time we acknowledged that actually we couldn't live without it. But what is it about email that makes us compulsively check it each time we see that little notification icon?
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