The Harvard Business Review article, "The Cost of Continuously Checking Email" by Dr. Ron Friedman, award-winning social psychologist and founder of Ignite 80, explores how we can protect our cognitive resources and how “the more you do to minimize task-switching over the course of the day, the more mental bandwidth you’ll have for activities that actually matter.” Indeed. “The tactic of time blocking to focus on the most important work or task at hand also extends to email,” said Moah. Being able to pause the emails or setting specific times to check emails establishes a boundary letting the attention focus on the work that matters the most.
