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===Information overload=== The ubiquity of email for knowledge workers and "white collar" employees has led to concerns that recipients face an "[[information overload]]" in dealing with increasing volumes of email.<ref>{{cite web|last=Radicati|first=Sara|title=Email Statistics Report, 2010|url=https://www.radicati.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Email-Statistics-Report-2010-2014-Executive-Summary2.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901222039/https://www.radicati.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Email-Statistics-Report-2010-2014-Executive-Summary2.pdf|archive-date=2011-09-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gross|first=Doug|title=Happy Information Overload Day!|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/10/20/information.overload.day/index.html|work=CNN|date=October 20, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023041454/https://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/10/20/information.overload.day/index.html|archive-date=October 23, 2015|access-date=March 24, 2019}}</ref> With the growth in mobile devices, by default employees may also receive work-related emails outside of their working day. This can lead to increased stress and decreased satisfaction with work. Some observers even argue it could have a significant negative economic effect,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/technology/20digi.html|title=Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami|date=2008-04-20|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Randall|last=Stross|access-date=May 1, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417094850/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/technology/20digi.html|archive-date=April 17, 2009}}</ref> as efforts to read the many emails could reduce [[productivity]].
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