All Emails Should Be 5 Sentences Maximum Here’s Why

If you're sending emails in a work environment they should be 5 sentences maximum. Some of us get many many messages a day. You should treat email like you do your text messaging program. Brief and to the point. During a busy work day most of us have the patience to read through about 5 sentences and then... we don't read the rest of it. We've moved on to something else.

Now do not go to brief because emails, as we know, are unlike common spoken conversation. No inflection, no facial expressions. one sentence can be misunderstood into being impolite or rude. I know you have taken copius amounts of time to constuct email messages in the past, and almost all of the time it's not needed.

This article originally published at The Muse here