New research suggests that using smiley face emojis  work emails could jeopardize your career. Researchers  a university  Israel report that people inserting emojis in work-related mail are likely to be deemed stupid and incompetent. The researchers conducted experiments  549 professionals  29 different countries to gauge their reaction to emojis. The professionals had to "evaluate both the competence and warmth"  the e-mail writer. Dr Ella Glikson said: "Our findings provide first-time evidence that, contrary to actual smiles, smileys do not increase perceptions  warmth and actually decrease perceptions  competence." She added: " formal business e-mails, a smiley is not a smile."
Other research has also shown that emojis are often misunderstood. Some  this misunderstanding is related to how the reader or viewer interprets the emoji design.  other cases, there is a technological problem. The emoji that was typed in  the writer is not shown in the same way  the e-mail received and read  the reader. This happens when the writer and reader  an email do not use the same software or operating system  their devices. Emojis originated  Japanese mobile phones  the late 1990s. They quickly spread  popularity and now more than six billion of them are sent every day und the world. There is even a World Emoji Day, which is celebrated on July the 17th every year.