![]() ![]() The perfect work email starts with ‘Hi’ and ends in ‘Kind Regards’ All this time in our inboxes means that there’s bound to be a few things that get on our nerves. ![]() Not only are we emailing a lot at work, 31% check their emails outside of work ‘every few hours’, whilst 8% check ‘every hour’ and another 8% do this ‘constantly’. Most adults spend between 1 and 2 hours a day checking emailsġ in 5 spend between 1 and 2 hours of their workday in their inbox, 16% spend between 2 and 3, while a shocking 15% spend 5+ hours checking and sending emails each day. Phone is the third most popular platform, with a third of people stating that this is their preferred method and surprisingly, just 16% say instant messaging.Īnd only 8% think text is fit for work purposes, along with the 3% who use social media for work. Almost ¾ of people say that this is their preferred method, with face-to-face coming in second place with 50%. It might be 2020 but email isn’t dead – 73% say email is their preferred method of communication at workĪlthough other methods may seem like they are ever on the rise – good old email is still the most popular method of communication for work. A huge 16% think that it’s never acceptable to use an exclamation mark in a work email, while 48% say that you can use just one.Using capital letters, kisses and emojis are the biggest email DON’Ts.'Hey', 'Happy Friday' and 'To whom it may concern' are the worst ways to start an email.The worst work email sign-offs are ‘love’, ‘warmly’, ‘cheers’ and ‘best’.‘Just looping in…’ and ‘As per my last email’ are rated the most annoying email cliches.According to the working public, the perfect work email starts with ‘Hi’ and ends in ‘Kind Regards’.To find out the ultimate email DOs & DON’Ts and which cliches fill us with rage, Perkbox Insights conducted a survey of 1,928 people. CORPORATE EMAIL LINGO HOW TOIt’s 2020, so we should all know how to email, right?īut with so many of us heavily using email for work, there are bound to be some things that pop into our inboxes and annoy us. ![]()
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