Atos, a French tech company, hopes to ban all internal email within the next two years. "We are producing data on a massive scale that is fast polluting our working environments and also encroaching into our personal lives," said Thierry Breton, the chief executive officer of Atos. "...
You might think that the holidays are a time to escape work, but 68 percent of working adults will check their email on holidays like Thanksgiving, Hannukah and Christmas. Xobni also found that 79 percent of polled working adults receive email on traditional holidays, a fact that annoyed 37 percent...
Email spam costs businesses $20.5 billion a year -- that's about $1,934 per employee -- in decreased productivity, according to this VisibleGains infographic. Another shocking statistic: 18 percent of all received email is spam or graymail like alerts or unwanted newsletters. To decrease the time your...
Companies that ignore the need for email efficiency are setting themselves up for a colossal waste of resources. Corporate America spends over 40 percent of their day on email; to put that figure into financial terms, someone who earns $55,000 a year will make $1,760 each month just...
Happy Monday! I've hand-picked five must-read articles on efficiency to start your workweek off right. * Office vampires suck the morale out of a team and cause productivity to plummet. Learn how to shut them down. [Entrepreneur] * Three strategies to turn your email inbox into a productivity tool. [ZDNet]...
