Decide Whether to Push Back on Being Cc'd Into Every Thread in a Department You Don't Work In

You are cc'd into every email from a department you do not work in, and three weeks on your inbox is still theirs as much as yours. Asking to be removed risks looking territorial. Staying risks missing the one that mattered. This works out which it is, and gives you the line to send if it is time to go.

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You have been copied into every email thread from a department you do not work in for [several weeks], and you are trying to work out whether raising it is worth the awkwardness or whether you should just keep filtering it into a folder.
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**Decide whether to raise being cc'd out of these threads, using this process:**
1. List the actual cost: time spent reading or triaging these emails each week
2. Identify who added you and why, as best you can tell from the thread history
3. Weigh the risk of asking to be removed, looking territorial, missing something you did need, against the cost of staying on the list
4. Draft the single sentence you would use to ask to be removed, if the decision is yes
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- A clear recommendation: stay on the list, ask to be removed, or ask to be moved to a weekly digest instead
- One paragraph explaining the reasoning behind the recommendation
- The exact sentence to send, if removal is the recommendation
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