Professional Etiquette

Best practices for emails

Ian McCarthy, Emory University

Economics PhD Professionalism Workshop

Emails

Respond

  • Use your professional email account!
    • “Oh, he doesn’t check that email address. Did you send it to this other address?”
  • Respond to your emails!!
    • Equilibrium where we all need multiple reminders is bad
  • Respond with complete thoughts
  • Respond in a respectful way
  • Be very careful with reply all

Difficult conversations via email

Once you hit send, the email is available for anyone to read for as long as anyone wants. It’s all up to the recipient.

Have a signature

Please create an email signature

  • Name
  • Title
  • Link to your website

Try not to include inspirational quotes, pictures, extra clutter