Saturday, October 20, 2007

Fridays go from casual to e-mail-free

USA Today covered a fascinating/frustrating phenomenon: full in-boxes. Employers are encouraging workers to declare email bankruptcy -- deleting or archiving entire in-boxes and starting over.

My favorite fun fact from this story is that " It can take four minutes to refocus on work after checking an e-mail". Moral: don't constantly check for new messages.

Read more here.

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .