From the course: Efficient Time Management
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Make sure you get a reply
From the course: Efficient Time Management
Make sure you get a reply
- I don't like it when I get emails with a read receipt on them. For some reason it annoys me to know that someone's checking up on me. It feels like nagging. Have you read my email yet? In fact, I've set my email so that it won't tell you whether I've read it. There's a setting you can change on yours too and if you think about it, there's not really any benefit in knowing that they've read it. It's the reply that you need. If they read it and don't reply, you won't know. So there's a key defect in the whole setup of email which is that if someone doesn't reply, you won't know. It'll send you a read receipt if the other person reads it maybe depending on their settings as we've just seen. But it won't notify you if they don't read it and it certainly won't notify you if they don't reply. In fact, what you really want is a system which after five days reminds you by saying Tony still hasn't replied to that email, you know? So putting read receipts on emails isn't the answer and I…
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