Overview

• Forty percent of workers are checking emails by 6 a.m., extending the workday into early mornings.
• Employees receive an average of 117 emails and 153 Microsoft Teams messages per day, resulting in interruptions every two minutes.
• Nearly 30% of employees return to their inbox by 10 p.m., while about 20% check emails before noon on weekends.
• A Microsoft survey of 31,000 workers found that one-third believe the pace of work over the past five years has become impossible to keep up with.
• Microsoft’s report recommends automating low-value tasks with AI but warns that without clear boundaries it may intensify around-the-clock work.