Should you just delete all your emails when you get back to work post-vacation?

Deleting emails can help reduce your carbon footprint. — AFP Relaxnews

As email inboxes reach record levels of messages, could the solution, radical though it may be, lie in simply deleting them all? The logic behind the idea being that if someone is really trying to reach you, they will recontact you...

After some weeks of summer holidays, many employees return to their work inboxes to find them overflowing, easily reaching 5,000, 10,000 or sometimes even 15,000 unread emails. It’s enough to make a person feel overwhelmed and even cancel out some of the stress-relieving effects of the vacation.