The common practice of scan-reading your
email messages. E-glancing has become more prominent due to workload and
time constraints. E-glancing is facilitated by the growing popularity of
PDA type devices where emails are received out of the office environment. In such circumstances, ‘E-glancing' assures a prompt response and efficient time management for busy professionals.
E-glancing also incorporates a function whereby (when reading an
email) only the first few sentences of the
email are actually studied by the receiver. As a result of E-glancing, emails in the business environment have become less wordy and exhibit direct evidence when calling for action i.e. incorporation of bullet points and numbering rather than
long-winded explanations of entire scenarios.
Busy professionals have unwittingly developed a technique known as e-glancing to ensure they can identify critical tasks (outlined by an inundation of electronic
media) in a shorter
time-
frame, thus rendering their response with greater efficacy.