According to AOL Mail’s fourth annual Email Addiction Survey, 46% of email users said they’re hooked on email (up from just 15% last year) and 51% check their email four or more times a day.
One in five said they check their email more than 10 times a day.
Of those surveyed, 60% said they’ve never gone more than 5 days without checking email and 17% can’t go more than one day without email.
20% of users said they have over 300 emails in their inboxes
69% of email users said they have multiple email accounts, up from 52% in 2007.
62% of at-work email users said they check their work email over a typical weekend, and 19% check email five or more times in a weekend.
More than 50% said they check their email while on vacation and 19% choose vacation spots with email access.
Seventy-eight percent of those who have a mobile device check email while on vacation.
Twenty-three percent said they check their email as soon as they wake up, followed by right when they get home from work (11%) and right after dinner (9%).
16% said they check their email from a mobile device and 55% said they upgraded to a new cell phone in the last year so they could get their email while on-the-go.
30% of mobile email users said that since getting a mobile device with email capabilities they feel “married to the office.”
41% of mobile email users said they keep their cell phones near them when they sleep so they can hear when a new email comes in.
49% of mobile email users said they check their email every single time a new message arrives.
People today check their email:
- In bed in their pajamas: 67%
- From the bathroom: 59%
- While driving: 50%
- In a bar or club: 39%
- In a business meeting: 38%
- During happy hour: 34%
- While on a date: 25%
- From church: 15%
Nice work there.
I like this one:
People today check their email:
In bed in their pajamas: 67% they must be sleep emailing (like sleep walking)
While on a date: 25% – that date must be an interesting company
Nice One