The best time to reply to an email
🕓 Today’s tip: Instead of hitting send, schedule your messages.
Replying to an important email at, say, 3:47 in the morning makes you seem sleepless and pushy at the same time. Replying at 3:47 in the afternoon makes you seem generally unenthused about the subject at hand (really, you couldn’t get to it til after lunch?).
If you can, schedule the reply for a time that suggests engagement and enthusiasm. That could be 7 a.m., which, as one fan of the practice points out, “just hits different.” Or it could be 10 a.m., when more people are checking email than any other time of day, according to numerous studies. Whatever you’re trying to convey, just write the email, schedule it, and then get on with your day.
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