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three-plushours per day
In Adobe's 2019 Email Usage Study of 1,002 U.S. adults, consumers said they spend three-plus hours a day checking work email, which is at least 15 hours a week at five days a week.
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In the source's own words
“consumers said they spend approximately five hours a day checking work email (three-plus hours a day) and personal email (two-plus hours a day)”
If You Think Email Is Dead, Think Again, Adobe, Adobe Blog (Adobe Experience Cloud), 2019, Body text, second paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- Adobe surveyed 1,002 U.S. adults in July 2019 and asked consumers how much time they spend checking work email and personal email each day. The post states the daily figures as 'three-plus' and 'two-plus' hours, not exact averages.
- What it does not show
- The figure is a daily amount from a self-reported online survey, converted here to a week at five days (15 hours is a lower bound). It measures time checking email, not writing or replying, and the post does not say whether the daily figure counts weekends. The survey is from 2019.
In the data
A row of How Much Time People Spend Writing and Typing at Work, as Adobe 2019, work email: 15 hours per week.
- Activity
- Who
- U.S. adults surveyed by Adobe (consumers)
- How measured
- Self-reported survey
- Country
- United States
- People
- 1002
- Year
- 2019
- Note
- Three-plus hours a day times 5 workdays is at least 15 hours a week. The source gives no hours per week and no workday count, so 5 days is assumed; 15 is a lower bound.
Source
Used to calculate
- In the time spent writing, typing and on email dataset, the 7 published figures for “Email” have a median of 8.8 hours per week, ranging from 0.2 to 15.
- The time spent writing, typing and on email dataset holds 16 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The time spent writing, typing and on email dataset draws on 9 distinct sources.