# Professor Adam Alter shares insights on the impact of email usage on work productivity

1 Faculty News June 27, 2018 ![Business Insider logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/business%20insider%20logo.jpg?itok=0MJSCdPh)>

Excerpt from [Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/email-dangerous-time-sink-for-ceos-study-2018-6) -- "On average, it takes six seconds to check a typical email after it arrives in an inbox, [Adam Alter](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/adam-alter), a New York University professor, previously told Business Insider. But, he continued: 'If you check an email, it's going to take you 25 minutes to get back into that state of productivity you were in before you checked your email.'"

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