Most of HR leaders are drowning in email before 10am.
HR inbox is genuinely chaotic - leave requests, vendor pitches, policy questions, manager asks with obvious answers, and buried in there somewhere, one message that actually needs careful attention today.
Every email looks equally important until you open it. So most HR leaders open all of them. That’s a lot of time gone just figuring out what actually matters.
Here is a fix.
I had the same problem, so I built an inbox assistant that connects to Gmail and does the triage for me. It shows me where to focus - the 20% that actually needs attention. Some emails get sorted into folders automatically. Others get flagged as urgent. The rest stays out of my way.
I rebuilt it specifically for HR roles. If you want my setup, comment on my LinkedIn post and I’ll send it over (it’s free). →
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If you already use Claude - you can set this up directly there, no new tools needed. About 15 minutes. I wrote the full step-by-step in my LinkedIn article.
If you have inbox problems I haven't covered here - specific situations, edge cases, things that keep slipping through - I'd love to hear them. I'm actively building solutions around this and the best ones come from real cases.
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