Can We All Agree Which Day Should Be Email Free?
from the this-will-never-work dept
Ah, the return of the "email free *day." In 2002 we had the story of the Liverpool City Council banning all internal email use on Wednesdays based on the idea that sometimes it was good to force people to communicate in other ways. In 2003 Phones4U's CEO (also based in the UK) decided that email was wasting his employees' time, and banned all internal email communications. Last year, Veritas decided to have email free Fridays to get people to communicate in a different way. It seems that, once a year, this idea gets picked up somewhere. The latest is that the Essex police chief has told his staff to avoid emailing each other on Wednesdays (agreeing with the Liverpool City Council on the proper day, apparently). It's an interesting idea to try to force people to seek alternate means of communication and break them of a bad habit... but, sometimes email really is the best means of communication. So, arbitrarily banning it doesn't seem like the most productive of solutions.
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What a bunch of dumbasses
What a load of crap. Notice how it's never a real business that pulls shit like this, it's always some low level government agency (obviously hiring the best minimum wage can buy for managers).
//hate stupid people
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in conclusing i say the goverment just wants better control of what we do hey they know who wrote this and were i live. there fore fredom exist but to a controled level, we all have a goverment issued number it might not be tatooed in to our arms but we're still issued on, and well im just babeling on so im ending with this. Fredom is Fredom and it shuldent be Controled
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As has already been said, people should be taught to use e-mail not abuse it. There are far better ways of storing email then to print it "for the records"
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