inbox zero
IN-boks ZEE-roh
ˈɪnbɒks ˈzɪəroʊListen
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a productivity philosophy and goal, coined by Merlin Mann, in which one's email inbox is kept consistently empty or near-empty by processing, filing, deleting, or delegating every message promptly rather than allowing a backlog to accumulate; achieving inbox zero is held up as a marker of organisational efficiency and psychological freedom from the anxiety of an overflowing inbox; critics point out that the obsessive pursuit of inbox zero can itself become a time sink that optimises for the appearance of responsiveness rather than meaningful work, and that the ideology reflects an individualised solution to what is fundamentally a structural problem of communication overload
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