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Where next with email communications? As I write this blog in June 2024, many government professionals, contractors, suppliers and even home users continue to complain that their inboxes are overflowing and/or out of control. In extreme cases, I have seen friends and colleagues delete their entire email accounts and start over with a new one. Others use various tools and tricks to find the important items.

Questions abound related to this email topic, such as: And even when you follow the instructions contained in emails, frustrations do not end but often grow. For example, the “quick 15-minute meeting” they ask for inevitably leads to more meetings. Or, when you answer an email to provide one of the three options given as to why you have not responded to the other four emails they sent in the past month, they don’t leave you alone.



Rather, you feel as if you are almost the victim of online stalking as this person starts to send social media and/or phone messages. As a technology professional who has worked for federal and state governments, as well as several different private-sector companies over three-plus decades, I can tell you that the problem is bad everywhere and generally speaking, the “grass is not greener” on the other side of the fence. What I mean by that is that private-sector employees are seeing just as many emails as public-sector employees.

Early last week I posted this question on LinkedIn: Here are 10 of my favorite replies (you can read all of .

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