IT company bans employee email

[samvara]

Company emails are a waste of time, outdated, inefficient and ruining employees lives, says the director of a giant tech company who has banned them in the workplace.

Interesting! I've seen increasing feedback suggesting email is a less and less effective form of communication - information overload certainly affects what feeds I'm willing to skim or subscribe to and I cower in the presence of wall'o'text emails.

Comments

[sara]

It might be nice to be post-email, but I'm just now getting some of our volunteers to START using email!

You can pry my email from my cold dead hands. I honestly think I'd quit a job that required text chats.

[samvara]

I think you have to have a viable alternative!

[japester]

With the knowledge that 97% of all email sent is spam, I have been actively pondering the alternatives. It is fantastic to see a company actually embarking on this potentially scary endeavour.

Email can be useful, but it has been broken by spam, and, there are good alternatives.

[samvara]

I think it's a fit the communication to the medium problem...

[copracat]

Different kinds of communication need different media. One minute of face to face or phone conversation (accessibility allowing) can be so much more efficient than an email exchange.

Email can also allow contentious situations to escalate.

I think Atos Origin's experiment is worth watching.

[samvara]

I don't think we need to ditch email altogether, but I definitey think we could use a lot less.