Boss keeps sending you long, boring emails? They should read this

May 21, 2026 — 3:25pm

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There’s a special place in hell for lengthy email writers. You know the ones, the colleagues who love sending messages packed with multiple headings, extensive bullet points and sections dripping with information. They usually take 12 paragraphs to get to the point, and hidden somewhere in the18th is what they want from you.

Until recently the reasons for long emails was either oversharing, or workers who felt the need to vomit everything up to try to cover all their bases. Now we can add colleagues who are trigger-happy with AI and cut-and-paste drafts that are set to verbose by default.

If you’re the unlucky recipient of such long-winded prose, you likely ignore them completely, skim over the headlines or file them away with a deluded intention of reading it one day........

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