A latest research conducted in Britain has claimed that Emails, which is considered to be the most popular mode of communication online, actually wastes an hour a day. 

The researchers discovered that people working at the offices actually waste an hour a day sending and receiving emails. Further, the obsession has led to a culture in which many process them without even thinking. 

The findings have been based by conducting a survey on 4,000 employees from 150 business houses in Britain. 

The Daily Telegraph reported, “The poll found that the average worker wastes one hour every day through inefficient use of email; most do not filter or organize their emails correctly; and many of the emails sent do not help people to do their jobs.”

According to a spokesman for communications consultants Expert Messaging, which commissioned the research, “As a communications tool that we have all grown up with, but seldom if ever given any formal training on or provided any corporate guidelines for, it's no wonder that email is a significant sources of stress, miscommunication and inefficiency for companies and individuals.”

 “Some companies have banned their workers from sending carbon copies of emails, and in extreme cases have banned them from sending emails altogether. There's a problem that with superabundance of information, there's a scarcity of attention,” he added.