![]() ![]() Check your email 3 times a day (morning, noon and afternoon) and see how it changes your life. If you can go through 600+ emails in an hour after a weeklong vacation, why do you spend so much longer every day in your email client? Simple – because you are not grouping like tasks. Imagine the hours you waste by checking and responding to email all day.Īs the 4-Hour Work Week (and almost every other productivity expert) will tell you: batch like tasks. One week of work, per year, just checking notifications on email. That works out to be about 40 hours a year you spend checking pop-up notifications. It take about 5 seconds to look at each pop-up and get focused back to your work (it’s probably more like a couple of minutes). The purpose of a just checking in email template is to let the reader know that you are still alive and in charge, so they will be able to address any issues brought up in an email as soon as possible. 'Just checking in' is one of the most frustrating phrases for prospects to receive because they know it likely means more than just checking on their well-being. Let’s conservatively say you get 50 emails a day and get a pop-up notification for each one. Parkinson's law states, "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Keep Outlook open and it will fill your day. The quicker you respond, the quicker you get a reply. You could literally spend ALL day responding to emails and getting nothing done. While it is important to be reachable during the day, your primary job function is not to respond to emails. I would correct the punctuation, capitalization, and spacing so it reads: Hey John, Just checking if youve had time to send your email. Does it list "emailing" as your job? Unless you are in tech support, the answer is probably a resounding no. 2 Answers Sorted by: 2 This is more of a cultural issue than one of diction, but your wording sounds perfectly polite to me. While that sounds a bit snooty, go look at your job description. In a polite or formal email, it’s often a good idea to let the person know the purpose of the message right away. My usual response is, "Nope, I've been working." Sometimes the best way to say just checking in is to just come out and say it. One of my least favorite sayings is, "Did you get my email?" ![]()
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