As the use of email increases, people have started realizing its troubles. Email is the de facto mode of communication now. And many people get hundreds of emails everyday – that too work related. Not forwards or spam. My brother in law says “we have now become email pushers and not managers”! He, like many others, has a Blackberry and his email travels with him. Given a chance he would open up his laptop in a wifi zone and start catching up on emails.
The situation is worse in many organizations world wide. There is “email stress”. CCing many people, long discussion trails, and people simply mentioning a line at the top about a four page long email.
I read lot of stories about organizations declaring Friday as “no email day”! People even charged a fine if you sent an email on that day! Lot of ideas are being generated. FastCompany has an article called “Intel Got (Too Much) Email” which has 10 commandments of email as well! New York Time asks if you have’ve got two extra hours for email!
Out of the chaos, comes an innovation.
I am waiting for that to happen to corporate email communication!