To 'e' Or Not To 'e'
No e-mail Day
The latest impact of the world growth in e-mail usage is that some companies have decided to have a unofficial no
e-mail day.
The world renowned Intel Company is the latest in a growing number of national and international companies to take the decision to have a no e-mail day.
Apparently, Fridays have been designated as the day when 150 Intel engineers will do what their less high tech predecessors used to do and use the more old fashioned ways of communicating, for instance the telephone has been recommended.
For people of the 'no email' generation this may sound strange but it is actually true, engineers are being encouraged to pick up their phones and talk, or would you believe it, have a face to face discussion with their colleagues. Only in America can this sort of momentous event happen. Apparently the bosses realised that staff sitting next to each other were sending each other emails rather than talking to each other.
The latest stats show that individual workers sent an average of 37 e-mails a day in 2006 and they are predicting that these figures will raise to 47 by the end of 2007. A recent study at the Universities of Glasgow and Paisley in Scotland concluded that one third of e-mailers where stressed out by the sheer volume of emails they had to deal with. Some e-mailers where actually checking their Inbox 30 or 40 times per hour.
Whilst having a no e-mail day will help to wean staff off the e-mail fix, the major conclusions of the survey are seemingly pointing to a re-educating programme on the appropriate use of e-mails. I wonder if the next introduction in to the workplace will be a computer that tells you when to stop sending e-mails and has a chat with you about your favourite likes and dislikes.
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