How many emails does the average office worker receive per day?

Technology medium Data from 2023

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Answer in emails. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

121 emails

Roughly 121.

The average office worker receives about 121 emails a day and sends around 40. Studies consistently find it takes over 20 minutes to fully refocus after an interruption, which makes the arithmetic of a working day fairly bleak.

Where this number comes from

Source Radicati Group Email Statistics Report
Figure refers to 2023
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Unit emails

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