This is very interesting. Thierry Breton, CEO and Chairman of Atos Origin, recently stated his vision for an email free company within 3 years. On the face of it this seems a little crazy. Email is, after all, so central to what people do all day nowadays. On the other hand, what people do nowadays seems to be read and write emails all day long and this isn’t especially productive. Email used to be a productivity tool, but now it’s just an obstacle to productivity and deep thinking.

To quote Breton: “The volume of emails we send and receive is unsustainable for business. Managers spend between 5 and 20 hours a week reading and writing emails”

Information overload – the facts:

* By 2013, half of all new digital content will be updates to existing information
* Online social networking is now more popular than email and search
* Middle managers spend  25% + of their time searching for information
* 2010 : Corporate users receive 200 mails per day, 18% of which is spam

More here- Atos blog

Now, back to my email….