That company readiness requirement is usually the first question on Inbox Zero. People these day expect that you always be using your email, regardless of time and place. There isn’t one single answer to that. But, from a company point of view, if there is an urgent action that is required to be done immediately, then maybe someone should call you, with a real live phone, because well, it’s really urgent. If they send and email, than you should educate them that the response time can be in a 0-120 min time window.

But, check out the presentation, there is a Q&A at about 33 minutes into the presentation about that particular issue.

1 - My corporate mail must be open all the time. Lagging on responses might be yellow card for me (welcome to corporate world). I still check my personal mail, but I shouldn’t.

2 - I gave up RSS feeds at work. I check them at home only.

3 - That scrapbook plugin sounds nice. Will try it.

Anyway, thanks for pushing procrastination out of this world