Well, we'll let you tally up your own inbox. Then again, that will only add time to the two hours a day that training firm CohesiveKnowledge says we already devote to fielding an average of 41 daily incoming missives. The inbox bloat problem is longstanding, of course, and an issue that the press has found sexy since at least the late 90s. In 2006, however, email has matured and is markedly less appealing. Recent court cases hinged on email evidence, and corporate compliance and regulatory requirements have forced companies to face the issue of message storage. The enterprise does take email more seriously, but in simply archiving old messages, are companies really facing both the depth of the problem and the scale of the opportunities in email?
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