Luis Suarez of IBM has essentially sworn off email since February 2008, opting instead to use social media to communicate with colleagues. "I was getting tired of doing everyone else's work instead of mine," he told Wired, explaining that many of his daily emails entailed answering...
PriceWaterhouseCoopers employees who choose to work on the weekends will encounter a fascinating aspect of the company's email policy: a gentle reminder not to burden your colleagues with messages. Here's the message in its entirety, courtesy of AttorneyRetention.org: It's the Weekend Help reduce...
The free ToutApp Year in Review service analyzes your Gmail or Google Apps account to suss out useful statistics that can help you handle email more effectively. You'll learn your busiest days and hours in terms of email volume, as well as the percentage of your emails that...
The Email Game is a free tool for Gmail and Google Apps users that adds competitive elements to tackling your inbox. You get 3 minutes to process each email; just reply to or delete an email before the timer is up to accumulate points. If you fail to process an...
A new study out of Northwestern University indicates that our email efficiency is relationship-sensitive -- specifically, we reply sooner to emails from close friends than strangers. Researchers Stefan Wuchty and Brian Uzzi studied 1.5 million messages sent by 1,052 employees and uncovered an algorithm that reveals the closeness...
Volkswagen is fighting the good fight in work-life balance by stopping its BlackBerry servers from delivering email to employees after regular work hours. The plan, which applies to VW Germany workers with trade-union-negotiated contracts, only permits emails to be delivered during a window that begins 30 minutes before an employee&...
