Hear No Evil, See No Evil — E-mail Kills the Phone

coondoggie writes to tell us that in a recent study e-mail has overtaken telephony as the most common workplace communication tool. "Research reveals that 100% of the end-users surveyed use e-mail, followed by fixed-line telephones (80%), mobile telephones (76%) and instant messaging (66%). The study points out the three most ubiquitous technologies increase productivity the most. Over 70% of the end-users surveyed say e-mail impacts positively on their productivity, followed by conventional fixed-line telephony (53%) and mobile telephony (52%). From a productivity point-of-view, the research shows that instant messaging, blogs and softphones are considered most disruptive, and could negatively impact productivity if not managed properly."

Comments

E-mail survey, right?

[Animats]

Research reveals that 100% of the end-users surveyed use e-mail

Let me guess. They did the survey via e-mail.

Re:Slashdot Editors Forget

[tomhudson]

What is this landline phone you speak of?

I refused to use chat for years, but for interoffice communications, its quicker than email, and better than shouting "hey, what's that url again?"

Re:EDITOR CHECK PLZ

[sethawoolley]

Aren't you glad you posted that one anonymously.

but I thought email was dead?

[walterbyrd]

Wasn't there an article on /. a few weeks back that claimed that email was dead? So now email is alive and is killing the phone?