A group of Stanford computer scientists have discovered that people who are willing to let third party services sort through their email inboxes are twice as productive as those who read all of
their emails themselves. Services like EmailValet offer remote personal assistants to organize email inboxes and summarize the contents into a to-do list. But don't expect a surge in productivity from
these findings. Only 4 percent of Stanford's test subjects were willing to hand their email password over to a stranger to do this kind of job.
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