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If you'd like a jarring experience sometime, try reading the famous children's book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Alex and his family go pick up Dad at the office, causing all sorts of mischief, but what's strangest to the modern reader is the illustration of Dad's desk. He has a phone. Paper. Books. But, since Judith Viorst's story was first published in 1972, no computer. 大和家人去爸爸办公室接他，结果在那里制造了一大堆麻烦。但今天的读者感到最奇怪的应该是爸爸办公桌的插图。上面有电话、文件、书籍，但就是没有电脑，因为朱迪思•维奥斯特的这本书首次出版是在1972年。 In 1972, you realize, office workers spent zero percent of their time on email. Forty years later, though, checking email has become synonymous with working, to the point where it seems to be taking over our working lives. 所以，我们知道，在1972年，上班族在电子邮件上不会花一丁点时间。然而，四十年过去了，如今，查看电子邮件已经成了工作的代名词，甚至似乎要成为我们工作生活的全部。 According to a July 2017 McKinsey Global Institute report on "the social economy, " the average knowledge worker now spends 28% of her work time managing email. If you work 50 hours per week, that's 14 hours stuck in the inbox. McKinsey's report suggested that workers could improve their email productivity by 25-30% through better use of social collaboration platforms, buying back 7-8.5% of their workweek. But even if your company isn't investing in such platforms, here's some low-hanging fruit for getting your head out of your inbox for a few of those 14 hours: | 
