(Bloomberg Business) — After less than a week at Lake George this summer, Matthew Harrigan came back from vacation to find 596 unread emails waiting for him.
It took the managing director of Grand Central Tech, a New York City-based startup incubator, a full day to get through his inbox—and most of it was garbage. "Just over 12 percent is all that I'm reading," Harrigan said. "The rest I'm just deleting."
It's a digital trap that quickly drains the reservoir of relaxation from time off. But there is a way to escape the post-vacation email hangover.
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