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The research surveys 500 IT decision-makers in the UK, US and South Africa. IT decision-makers have an overview of the content of company inboxes that a typical employee does not have. This empowers them with a broad understanding of what the shape of email is and enables them to evaluate email best practice. Check out the Infographic and key findings from the data in the Shape of Email Report, which include some interesting disparities.

This short and sweet design is fairly effective at getting its point across without dragging on. The key takeaways are that 21% of emails on work accounts aren’t even work related, and even fewer than that are mission-critical. We also take up a lot of our inbox with internal emails. I’m a little confused about where the final stat in the “inbox” imagery fits in. So 64% of people believe social poses a security risk.. what does that have to do with work emails? Social poses an email security risk? Perhaps some rephrasing or a few more words could clear this up. Also, the positioning of those bottom three stats is odd — why is archiving thrown in between two stats about social media?

This could get even better if the two biggest stats (and the inbox ones below) were actually visualized. If people could really see that the vast majority of their emails are internal, it would get the message across even better.

Overall I’d give this infographic a B: it’s concise and clear on the top stats, but the bottom 5 stats could use just a bit of work to clarify and visualize better.

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This infographic comes from the folks over at Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group. It’s a very well done infographic, with some great design work. I really appreciate the central graphic, displaying the overwhelming more significant value of work experience when compared to education. It’s clean, easy to look at and relatively self-explanatory. The color palette chosen here is uniform and easy on the eyes, while also allowing the graphics to “pop”.

There’s also a lot of text on here. While I don’t feel that it’s an overwhelming amount of text or that it drowns out the graphics, there’s almost always a way to visually portray that data with less text. The graphic explaining the main reasons why people change career paths is a bit drowned in text. Visual portrayals of more money, better balance and new interests are easy to come by and make for a better infographic. Another example: the graphic on the bottom left side showing employee’s confidence in returning to work after leave. It takes too much reading to get that message across, and by the time you’ve read the explanation you’ve almost lost interest in what the graphic was displaying in the first place. Maybe using less text, and relying more on data visualization for those two graphics would be a good idea.

That being said, this infographic does a great job overall with showing the importance of work experience and career paths. The central graphic is awesome, and that’s where people’s eyes will most likely fall and draw interest. I’d give this infographic an B+.