Is writing on the wall becoming more trendy than E-mails

Is writing on the wall becoming more trendy than E-mails

Thierry Breton, the CEO of a UK based information technology services company Atos, is to ban his staff from sending each other emails. In his view, e-mails are nothing but waste of time and are old-fashioned. He claims that only a meagre number of electronic
message are useful in the whole day. In a recent statement, he said: "The deluge of information will be one of the most important problems a company will have to face [in the future]. It is time to think differently.”

He has proposed the plan that how Atos can get rid of this outmoded way of communication inside 18 months. The staff of Atos will instead use instant messaging and chat-style joint services inspired by social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter.
Company’s 75,000 staff used to spend between five and 20 hours a day dealing with email, but use of Breton’s replacements has cut its use by up to 20 per cent, the firm claims.

So is the writing on the wall our most trendy form of communication?

Breton has also introduced the Atos Wiki, which allows all employees to correspond by contributing or modifying online content, and Office Communicator, the company’s online chat system which allows video conferencing, file and application sharing.

Nevertheless, Tim Walters, senior analyst at the technology research company Forrester Research, shared his thoughts about the use of electronic message. He stated: "Email is disruptive, wastes a great deal of time and it’s miserable as a collaborative tool.
But it’s still used daily by 85 per cent of workers." He added: "Email isn’t a beast to be killed. Sometimes it’s the most appropriate tool for communication. Other timespeople send them thoughtlessly or to coverthemselves at work. And in government, emails
have much greater potential for future discovery than IM."

If email is dying, it will be a lingering fall. Without a ready audience through email, deal-a-day website Groupon would not have established a network of 143 million subscribers. More than 107 trillion electronic mails will be sent this year, while the
IM industry is hampered by fragmented services which do not communicate each other.

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