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Welcome. podcasts. Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to respond to emails,

even if you can't give an answer yet.

People want to know that you have received their messages

and will deal with them.

Letting them know that that is true can ultimately save you time.

Today's tip like some others this week comes from Laura May Martin's new book, Up Time.

She works at Google as the company's productivity guru,

coaching executives to be more efficient with their time.

In her book, she notes that the frequent productivity advice to check email

just a few times a day doesn't really work in a corporate environment. Many people's jobs require them to see email more often than that.

Plus, no one likes collaborating with a person who doesn't respond to email,

Martin says. It's just frustrating.

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