This one trick could protect you from email avalanches while you’re working

Emails are the bane of most of business people’s existence.

If you’d like to know exactly how much time they rob from you, Washington Post has kindly provided a calculator to give you the “depressing” truth.

So how do you achieve what you want as a business entrepreneur while – buzz – yet another email drops in?

“Just don’t answer it,” says Radiate founder Betty Liu.

She points to this unique email management system used by Tommy John chief executive Tom Patterson, who set up an auto-reply notifying senders he will not be checking emails during 9am to 5pm.