When we were young, we all used to resort to emails when we had to contact anyone who didn’t live in our part of the city or in another country. It didn’t matter how far the person was, the common medium of instruction was email. And this wasn’t the case at home only because at offices throughout the world, companies use email to send messages to people sitting on different orders and to generally communicate inside/outside of the company.
With time however, the importance of emails at home has now declined because people use Facebook or instant messaging to communicate with one another. But emails still remain the orthodox medium of use in companies. However, now it seems companies are also turning away from emails because a company from France has put a ban on the use of email by their employees in support of Facebook-style interface and instant messaging.
According to a report by ABC, Atos, an IT company, is aiming to completely dissolve internal emails in the upcoming eighteen months since according to them, just 10 percent of the emails received by employees on daily basis contain useful information.
The finance minister of France, Thierry Breton revealed to the Wall Street Journal that from 2005-2007, he didn’t send an email in the entire three years he took position as the CEO and chairman of Atos in 2008.
In February, he said that they are producing so much data that it has started polluting their environment at work and has also start to creep in their personal lives. He said that the company is taking action to change this trend, similar to how organizations exercised measures to drop the environmental pollution after the time of industrial revolution. The company said those in the position of middle managers spend nearly 25 percent of their total time looking for data and information.
