Comments on: No E-Mail Fridays

By: Alan jones

Alan jones — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:45:59 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:00:56 +0000

David - it’s great that you are taking the intitive to point out your concerns and try to change the communications culture. Email is fantastic tool for many types of communication, but not all things. When people overuse it, it can create problems. For example, sometimes email threads start displacing informal networks, creating an often unrecognized loss of efficiency. Email overuse or misuse can also put a strain on work/life balance. I recently published a book on this subject called “Email Less —> Talk More: Improving Productivity & Job Satisfaction for You & Others”.

You can find it at:

By: David

David — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:43:30 +0000

I am the one who is doing this. It has proven to be very impactful. It is not that I dont read emails. I just choose to respond differently. Rather than the usual typed responsewhich is quick and does not allow for verbal or visual communication, it causes me to pick up the phone or walk down the hall to respond. People are starting to do the same in anticipation of how I will respond. Email is a great tool for quickly sharing information but not for communication and I am just trying to ween myself and others from using it as such. It is not an organizationwide policy, just mine. Monday’s work load is not impacted.