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Dec

2011

The Fastest Way To Lose Your $3 Million-A-Year Job? Have A No Email Policy

"You have to admire CEO Thierry Breton of Atos for taking a very public stance on the issue, telling ABC, “We are producing data on a massive scale that is fast polluting our working environments and also encroaching into our personal lives,” he goes on to say, “At [Atos] we are taking action now to reverse this trend, just as organizations took measures to reduce environmental pollution after the industrial revolution.”"

www.businessinsider.com/ve-a-zero-email-policy-2011-12

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Let’s see, comparing digital email to environmental pollution when your own company is selling even more digital solutions that are contributing to the problem is pure lunacy. They pay this guy €2.5 million euros a year to come up with this stuff.
Imagine a customer sending an email into an Atos imposed, email black hole, where the customer is seeking answers to their questions. The Atos employee then cuts and pastes the email into the Atos intranet and hours later the Atos employee presumably receives an answer from another employee. The Atos employee then cut and pastes the answer back into the original email and sends it back to the customer.
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- Remember Breton’s environmental pollution analogy? Ironically, this situation creates even more digital pollution and human capital waste
- Breton’s policy depends on accepting the false premise that email is inherently tied to information overload and that by killing it the problem will rectify itself. In reality, it doesn’t matter which communication system you use, there will always be information overload if it isn’t managed properly.
- The harsher view is that Atos is unable to effectively manage information and their executives are taking extreme, unproven measures to somehow control it.
- I’m afraid Breton is confusing his information overload symptoms with its assumed cause: email. But email is not the cause, it’s only a vehicle for information.
- The creators of these technologies recognize email for what it is, a simple yet powerful communication tool that is part of an effective social business.

Nov

2011

Tech Firm Implements Employee ‘Zero Email’ Policy

"You’ve got mail–not. Employees of tech company Atos will be banned from sending emails under the company’s new “zero email” policy."

news.yahoo.com/ro-email-policy-165311050.html

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Atos has already reduced the number of internal emails by 20 percent in six months.
“We are producing data on a massive scale that is fast polluting our working environments and also encroaching into our personal lives,”
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- The company says by 2013, more than half of all new digital content will be the result of updates to, and editing of existing information. Middle managers spend more than 25 percent of their time searching for information, according to the company.
- Atos is evaluating a number of new tools to replace internal email including collaborative and social media tools