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.

For most workers, email is an especially destructive force. According to research by McKinsey, the average professional spends 28 percent of their workday reading and answering email. Unfortunately, ...

A computer model called SIMONE, for Simulator for Interruptions and Message Overload in Network Environments described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Simulation and Process ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past year or so, I have noticed an increasing number of articles, and heard a higher volume of complaints, about the legal, logistical, and personal headaches associated with the use of ...