Email management consists of various tasks that minimize the time and effort of handling emails. Employees or managers perform these tasks manually and may select best practices that fit their routines.
Effective email management may include:
• Organizing boxes to reduce time spent searching for messages.
• Setting time aside to open and check inboxes.
• Moving emails to shared or archived folders.
• Deleting unarchived messages.
• Creating a process of checking and promptly responding to emails.
Email management decreases time spent writing, replying to, and archiving emails. However, manual email management still adds redundancies and takes more time than automated email management software.