What to Check After AI Rewrites Your Work Email
Compare the rewritten email with the original before sending. Our test shows how a smoother sentence can move a deadline, weaken a…
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Work Email
Guides on the wording of emails at work: what an out-of-office reply has to say, whether to delete “just” and “sorry”, how long a normal email is, how to write numbers and dates for readers in other countries, how often a weekday and its date disagree, how to get the reader’s name right and what people send a second email to fix. Some of them include a tool you can use on your own email.
What to Tell the Person Covering Your Inbox About How You Write
A handover note for your writing style in five lines: how you open, how you end, contractions, exclamation marks, and fifteen sent…
The Mistakes People Send a Second Email to Fix and How to Catch Them First
What people have to put right after sending an email, from 176 real second emails: the attachment and the address line account…
How Often Emails Misspell the Reader’s Name and How to Get It Right
The right spelling of a reader's name is already on your screen, in the address line. About one real work email in…
One in 34 Emails With a Weekday and a Date Gets One of Them Wrong
We checked every weekday written beside a date in 85,123 real work emails against the calendar. In 34 of the 1,154 emails…
How to Write Numbers and Dates for Readers in Other Countries
"1.500" is fifteen hundred in Germany and one and a half in the United States, and "3/4/2027" is two different days. A…
What an Out-of-Office Message Needs to Say
The person who gets your auto-reply needs four facts, and wording like "away until the 16th" or "back next week" hides the…
How Long Is a Normal Work Email?
We counted 79,569 emails sent by the employees of one company. Half were 23 words or shorter and nine in ten were…
Should You Delete “Just” From Your Emails?
Some softeners are politeness or honest doubt and should stay. Others stand where the request should be. Ten work-email sentences with and…
