New research from Intermedia, the world's largest provider of business e-mail (http://www.intermedia.net/it-professionals/hosted-exchange/hosted-exchange.asp) service, reveals that:
- 60 percent of office workers and 50 percent of senior managers admit to regularly sending e-mails without the promised attachments, then resending moments later
- More than half of both senior managers and other employees save every message, no matter how irrelevant
- 15 percent of senior bosses have sent messages to the wrong "John" or "Mary" in their address book
- Six percent of all respondents admit abusing the 'High priority!' feature, to the dismay of co-workers
"Office workers are now totally dependent on e-mail and spend so much time in Microsoft Outlook, so it's not surprising that unusual habits have developed," said Rurik Bradbury, VP of
Strategy for Intermedia.
"Luckily, outsourced e-mail - such as our hosted Microsoft Exchange (