The average businessperson receives over 100 emails a day
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Last week's question: Some 200 billion emails were sent and received in 2015 according to a recent report, with the average businessperson receiving 122 emails per day. Please come up with a psychological term to describe the sense of despair felt by an office-worker when faced with an inbox brimming with unread emails.

Click here for the results of last week's contest: Hair raising

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