How to get an instant reply to that email
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Version 0 of 1. If you’ve been waiting for a reply to an email for more than a day, you’re probably not going to get one. That’s according to new research that shows that 90 per cent of people answer within a day or two of receiving an email if they plan to respond. The most likely reply time is two minutes, and half of responders will respond in just under an hour according to a new study by USC Viterbi School of Engineering. More than half the email replies are less than 43 words, and only 30 per cent of emails are longer than 100 words. There are however some ways to encourage people to reply:
Do your emails in the morning The researchers claim people are more active on email during the day than at night. As email load increases the fraction of users’ answers decreases. If you want a longer and perhaps more thoughtful reply, email someone in the morning. While emails on weekends get shorter replies than the ones send on weekdays.
Younger people will respond quicker The younger people are the faster the reply, with teenagers being the quickest with an email response time average of 13 minutes. Young adults in their twenties and early thirties took around 16 minutes to reply, while 35 to 50 year olds tended to respond in 24 minutes. However, people over 51 years of age, took as long as 47 minutes to respond, on average. Younger users can also cope with the increased email load more than older email users. As they become overloaded younger users tend to send shorter and faster replies. Older people cope simply by replying to a smaller fraction of emails. Women take longer than men Waiting for a reply from a female colleague? This is because you may have to wait about four minutes longer for an email response from a woman than an email response from a man. Computer-users are slower than phone users If someone is working from a laptop, on average it will take them almost twice as long to respond than if he/she were using a mobile phone.
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