The average American checks their email 14 times per day.

Men check their email 16 times a day on average, women 13 times a day.

The Most Email Addicted States

The average American spends 1.69 hours per day checking and replying to emails.

The average American regularly checks ~3 email accounts.

Email addiction is getting younger by generation - Millennials started regularly checking email at 20, Gen Z at 17.

57% of people feel pressured to reply to emails promptly.

Women (60.5%) are more likely than men (51.6%) to feel pressured to reply to emails promptly.

The majority of Americans (52.8%) reply to non-urgent emails in less than 4 hours.

61.9% of Americans prefer email communication over Slack (12.4%), phone calls (9.5%), and in-person meetings (10.2%). Only 1.2% prefer Zoom meetings.

75.7% of Americans check their email when they're bored

58.9% of Americans check their email at night and on weekends

69.3% of Americans check their email on vacation

50% of Americans check their email when still in bed in the morning

46% of Americans check their email at night when they can't sleep

45.1% of Americans check their email when spending time with friends and family

63.5% of Americans check their email when watching TV

Questions 17 - 24

62% of Americans would prefer meetings took place over email

On average, 3x per week Americans think "this meeting could have been an email”

The most stressful parts about email are: crafting a formal response (26%), responding quickly (15.3%), and keeping an organized inbox (14%)

60% of Americans think it's important to have no unread emails in your inbox

48.5% of Americans feel anxious about unread emails in their inbox

23% of Americans have lost sleep over a work email

Despite checking email an average of 14x per day, only 18.3% of Americans would describe themselves as addicted to email

Questions 25 - 26

17.8% of Americans receive over 25 marketing emails per day

63.2% of Americans would respond to a marketing email in order to receive a coupon