This one video hilariously shows why we all suck at email

Email was meant to change the world. And it has, except instead of making us more efficient and productive, it eats up large portions of our working days. There’s a reason why so many articles have been written about how to better and more efficiently manage your inbox.

While there have been plenty of attempts to fix that, our inboxes continue to be flooded. Oddly enough, a video from a company providing one of those solutions shows that the problem may well be us.

The clip, which comes from sketch comedy duo Tripp and Tyler and was made to promote work-management specialist Workfront, posits what would happen if we replicated email behaviour like hitting “reply all” or cc’ing in the wrong person in real life.

Now maybe, just maybe, if we take that all on board, we’ll have to spend less of our day replying to frivolous queries.