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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Thanks to the avalanche of messages they receive every day, many professionals and office workers say they suffer from email overload. It doesn't have to be that way.

“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, ...

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.

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. NASHVILLE — My great-grandfather, whom the family called Papa Doc, was a country doctor ...

Last summer, I wrote a blog post about e-mail overload and I shared some ideas I’d collected about how to stop swimming in e-mail. Recently, Jonathan Spira, CEO and Chief Analyst at Basex, wrote a ...

Here are the right (and wrong) ways to overcome email overload. One-Minute Email Triage For Those Kinda-Sorta-Useful Messages A rundown of Unroll.me and other automated sorting services that keep your ...