Average employee spends nearly 11 hours a week drafting emails

The average employee spends 10 hours and 47 minutes a week drafting emails that few recipients read, according to new research.

The survey of 8,000 small business employees (split evenly between Americans and Brits) asked respondents how much time they spend on emails: they draft an average of 112 emails a week, spending just over five and a half minutes on each.

But small business employees surveyed believe their emails are only fully read and understood by their recipients a third (36%) of the time.