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In A World Without Email, author Cal Newport talks about “the tyranny of the inbox”, arguing that email is inefficient and disrupts focus. The constant flow of written communication can have a negative impact on work performance too, says Newport, who is a computer science professor at Georgetown University.
Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber says it is not as simple as “email, bad” and “face-to-face, good”. Imber, author of Time Wise, says, “It’s about whether you are controlling the technology or whether you are allowing the technology to control you.
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