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The 10 types of emailer ruining your inbox

The 10 types of emailer ruining your inbox

There’s always someone you dread to email.

Whether it’s because you know they’ll get the wrong end of the stick, or because their reply will be useless, or because you might not even get a reply at all, sending a message to them just seems pointless.

Office space experts LondonOffices.com have broken these email failures down into ten different types – from the office comedian who will be more interested in making you laugh than helping you, to the vague colleague who will never give you a straight answer.

Chris Meredith of LondonOffices.com said employer have some responsibility when it comes to misuse of electronic communication. “Email is essential to modern business but very few companies invest in training their teams how to use it effectively,” he said. “As a result, there is a huge amount of miscommunication over email.”

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