Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

The Surprising Truth About Email Efficiency #adhd #neurodivergent

5 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Someone with ADHD checks email only three times daily to stay focused. Managers often resist this boundary, but productivity experts agree limiting email and messaging actually boosts efficiency for everyone.

I will only respond to emails 3 times a day, 8, noon, and 4:30, because my accommodation is I need you not to distract me.
Do you want me to do my job? If the answer is yes, then don't be sending me messages every 5 minutes in a Slack channel or Teams channel or whatever it is. And I'm only going to answer emails 3 times a day. Oh wow, I have an employee who wants to be super productive all day. Why is that offensive to most Business managers.
Well, here's the funny thing. If you talk to corporate-level efficiency experts, they will tell you that employees do not need to be plugged into an instant messenger or an email all day long. They don't because it makes people inefficient. If a corporate efficiency expert says it, it seems to carry more weight than if a neurodivergent person says they need this accommodation. Mm-hmm.