In 2021, users in the United States spent approximately 172 minutes daily checking their personal emails, compared to around 149 minutes daily spent checking their work emails. Between 2016 and 2021, users in the United States experienced an almost constant decrease in the time they spent per day engaging with their email inboxes for both personal and work communications, with an increase in checking personal emails from 2020 to 2021.
Daily time spent checking emails according to online users in the United States from 2016 to 2021, by type
(in minutes)
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Adobe. (October 13, 2021). Daily time spent checking emails according to online users in the United States from 2016 to 2021, by type (in minutes) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved February 19, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1332517/time-spent-checking-emails-us-users-daily/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
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