In The Telegraph, Henry Samuel reports on a major company's planned 'zero email' policy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8921033/Staff-to-be-banned-from-sending-emails.html
Thierry Breton, C.E.O. of Atos, plans to abolish all email communication within eighteen months, complaining that most of these messages are a waste of his employees' time. He complains that too many emails are sent - there is a 'deluge' of information - and that for each one workers lose time responding and then regaining concentration on the task at hand.
Breton, who was formerly a French finance minister and now heads Europe's largest I.T. company, plans to implement an instant messaging system to replace email. He believes email to be an outdated form of communication, but also believes that "Emails cannot replace the spoken word."
Thierry Breton, C.E.O. of Atos, plans to abolish all email communication within eighteen months, complaining that most of these messages are a waste of his employees' time. He complains that too many emails are sent - there is a 'deluge' of information - and that for each one workers lose time responding and then regaining concentration on the task at hand.
Breton, who was formerly a French finance minister and now heads Europe's largest I.T. company, plans to implement an instant messaging system to replace email. He believes email to be an outdated form of communication, but also believes that "Emails cannot replace the spoken word."
