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The Curmudgeon's Office blog is a spin off from my personal blog, Too Young To Be A Curmudgeon, which is full of random rants and thoughts I have on a whole host of topics. In an effort to be more organized, and also to attract a specific niche of followers, I decided to start a separate blog for my professional postings. At this blog, I'll post my tips, rants, and random thoughts on a host of professional topics from setting up a home office & office gadgets to 5S practices & time management.



Monday, December 3, 2012

Quick Tip #3: Turn Off Smartphone.Email@Work.com

If you have your work email on your smartphone, turn it off when you're in the office.

The thirty seconds it takes to disable the email account will boost your productivity. There's no benefit to have your phone beep to let you know it received the same email that you are currently looking at on your computer. Plus it's a distraction in meetings. Who cares if you find out you have a new office email while you walk down the hallway, it will be at your desk when you get there.

It will take you thirty seconds to turn it off when you get to the office and to turn it back on when you leave. How much time do you spend through out the day marking the emails "read" on your phone that you already read on your computer?

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