Abstract:
Purpose
Considering the fact that email is considered to be a crucial component of the organizations
for communication due to which most researches had concentrated on the positive side of
utilizing email, which will probably infer better capability and productivity. However, this
positive perspective has driven most researchers to disregard negative viewpoints related
with using emails at work. This paper concentrates on email related activities in the
workplace, specifically emails that are sent during work hours and shows that immense
degree of time waste that is happening not because employees are using email for private
purposes but also for purposes of work.
Methodology/Sample
This research incorporates a survey of 400 employees who belongs to different sectors,
uncovered that emails are broadly utilized by employees for private purposes and work
related emails are not used properly. Cronbach’s Alpha and Multiple Regression were
applied through SPSS in order to conduct data analysis.
Findings
The findings demonstrate that expanding email use in the workplace and investing more
time on private mails might be a marker of disappointment at work in organizations. The
outcomes of the study also show that the main purpose of exchanging emails is to enhance
and increase the working efficiency but because of the high degree of social connections
due to email, employee’s performance is interrupted and it results in high personal time
ineffectiveness.
Practical Implications In addition, it emphasizes the significance of more prominent control, supervision, email
boxes separation and training.
