I'm sympathetic to this knowing how few people actually read their emails (and slacks etc.). If you've ever sent out a 30 second survey to your coworkers, you know what I'm talking about. But I also know people don't really pay attention in these meetings either.

I feel async communication could work this way with the right cultural hygiene (e.g. consistent labeling, brevity, novelty, and relevancy), and some places I've worked were better about this than others, but they all tend to suffer from tragedy of the commons. If anyone works somewhere where you and all your coworkers actually count on each other to read emails, please tell me where!

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coliveira 2 days ago | parent [-]

The reason people don't read email is that companies have poisoned their communication channels. If an important email is right beside a practically junk message, it will be lost.

	▲	nkrisc a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		90% of the work emails I received were indistinguishable from spam. And they were sent by my employer. “Did you know HR has an XYZ workshop” or “Look at what your coworkers are saying on Internal Company Social Network” (that I never once logged into). Literal spam. It’s no wonder I became completely desensitized to email notifications from my own employer’s domain.
	▲	staunton 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		An interesting aspect of this: Where I work, an email subject line including "important" or "urgent" is a 99% indication for junk...