Do you work with people who never check their work email? (employees, employer)

[renter16]

I was surprised to find out so many people I work with never log on to their work email when they first get to work. What I'd management is sending something important? Or your supervisor can be sending you a email about something she wants completed. Has anyone worked with people who don't check their work email?

[Florida2014]

No. In today's day and age it would not be possible for my company to function without people being responsive to their emails.

[stan4]

I don't work in an office environment, and I somehow have 3 or 4 work email accounts that I'm supposed to be on top of all the time.
It's stupid and I routinely ignore at least one of them at any given time. Sometimes two.

[MLSFan]

Once a day, if I don't get to it, then once a week.

Not much comes through email anyways, important things are communicated in person still

[thunderkat59]

Email is totally abused. One's "important" is another's junk. Real work takes precedent over email every time. If its that important, call or actually walk the whole 100 yards you might have to walk to my desk and talk to me.

[Serious Conversation]

I can keep up with it at my current employer fine, but at my previous employer I'd easily get a couple hundred a day. Almost impossible to keep up with.

[Moby Hick]

I always check my email. I don't always tell the truth about this, especially to people who are lower on my priority list than they would like to be.

[G-fused]

I stay on top of email like a mofo. It's important here.

[svendrell]

I'm in management and report to a regional district manager (northeast US). I told him and the employees under me that I check my e-mail only once per day (between 8:15 a.m. and 8:45 a.m.). My workday is hectic and I told them that clients come first. Everybody was cool with it. I have a similar phone policy.

[city living]

I usually check it every time I come into work because when you do not work day shift, you never know when some protocol changes, there is something they want us to do, etc.

Plus, my one co-worker hardly does so I let her know. She'll remember to check it like once a month.