Europe's Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email 601
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.'"
SCO are wishing they did this (Score:4, Funny)
It stops all those pesky logs and evidence of such things ;)
Re:I've noticed this too (Score:5, Funny)
ICQ? Wow, I think we just had a post arrive through a wormhole from the 1990s.
So... (Score:5, Funny)
who cares what 11-19 year olds do- they're kids (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Our entire company just moved to Google Wave (Score:5, Funny)
It's the next big communication medium. Everything on one page. So easy to use.
Re:This was announced on February (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:I've noticed this too (Score:5, Funny)
I can forgive ICQ.... but Trillian?
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Re:I've noticed this too (Score:4, Funny)
Thank God you have Facebook to make yet another relationship seem closer than it is.
Re:I've noticed this too (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:I've noticed this too (Score:5, Funny)
You don't have to rest on the period key every time you pause or take a breath.