A new survey of over 2-thousand parents with school-age kids reveals how they feel about their overflowing personal inboxes.
- The average parent gets about four emails a day related to their kids, their school, and activities, which adds up to over 80 emails a month.
- So it’s not surprising that the average parent has more than 2-thousand unread emails in their inbox at any given time. Younger parents (those ages 20 to 34) have even more - an average of 28-hundred.
- All those emails have 52% feeling overwhelmed by their personal email inbox and 48% wishing they could have an “out of office” on their personal inboxes.
- Nearly a third (29%) feel their personal email is even more stressful than their work email.
- A third of parents agree that email can interfere with quality family time.
- But just because there’s so much communication doesn’t mean things don’t slip through the cracks, as 62% have missed an important event, information or detail in their email inbox.
- When that happens, 71% feel like bad parents.
- More than half (56%) of parents and caregivers say they get too many emails and 22% can’t ever find the email they’re looking for.
- About half (49%) of those polled feel their personal email adds to their mental load as a parent.
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