http://inboxdetox.com/is-checking-e-mail-during-business-meetings-career-suicide E-mail efficiency and productivity tips, hints, blurbs, gripes, and links for the e-mailer who wants to reclaim time for what is truly important... Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://inboxdetox.com/is-checking-e-mail-during-business-meetings-career-suicide/comment-page-1#comment-6 Bill Kirwin Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:37:54 +0000 http://inboxdetox.com/?p=29#comment-6 Our surveys show an even greater level of annoyance regarding this practice. We posed the issue: The use of PDAs (i.e. Blackberry) in meetings is often distracting. 54% agreed that it is distracting which is a proxy for annoying. This practice also degrades the quality of meetings which represent about 30% of the business week. Poor meetings then create more emails to communicate what should have been handled at the meeting! Our surveys show an even greater level of annoyance regarding this practice.
We posed the issue: The use of PDAs (i.e. Blackberry) in meetings is often distracting.
54% agreed that it is distracting which is a proxy for annoying.
This practice also degrades the quality of meetings which represent about 30% of the business week. Poor meetings then create more emails to communicate what should have been handled at the meeting!

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