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Europe's Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos, Europe's Largest IT Company, wants a 'zero email' policy to be in place in 18 months, arguing that only 10 per cent of the 200 electronic messages his employees receive per day on average turn out to be useful, and that staff spend between 5-20 hours handling emails every week. 'The email is no longer the appropriate (communication) tool,' says Breton. 'The deluge of information will be one of the most important problems a company will have to face (in the future). It is time to think differently.' Instead Breton wants staff at Atos to use chat-type collaborative services inspired by social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter as surveys show that the younger generation have already all but scrapped email, with only 11 per cent of 11 to 19 year-olds using it. For his part Breton hasn't sent a work email in three years. 'If people want to talk to me, they can come and visit me, call or send me a text message. Emails cannot replace the spoken word.'"
It stops all those pesky logs and evidence of such things ;)
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ICQ? Wow, I think we just had a post arrive through a wormhole from the 1990s.
No sig today...
No more lolcats in my inbox? I has a sad.
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Should I also lose all of my social skills, stop bathing and whine about how my parents don't understand me.
The youth unemployment rate is at an all time high wheras the unemployment rate for my, email using, demographic is still nice and low.
I'll pass on job related advice from them, or the head of 3rd tier IT company, thanks very much.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
It's the next big communication medium. Everything on one page. So easy to use.
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Maybe they just replied to the email.
FLR
One has to analyze the total economic advantage of having a girlfriend on the other side of the world. Seems to defeat the purpose.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
I can forgive ICQ.... but Trillian?
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
I'm heavily invested in carry pigeons in fact. Should a large SME blanket the earth and render our electronic communications systems mute, my investor colleagues and I will reap the rewards since everyone will be clamoring for these forgotten, yet necessary, organic tweet machines. Sorry, the venture is currently closed to additional investors.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Thank God you have Facebook to make yet another relationship seem closer than it is.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
He didn't say it was his only girlfriend. Actually having them spread out away from you make juggling more of them MUCH easier. I've done it with different girls in different cities around me and even across states...but never in other countries.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
You don't have to rest on the period key every time you pause or take a breath.