People have been ringing the death knell for email on and off for a few years now. But should we be listening?
The latest peal came from French IT company Atos, which declared that it would phase out internal emails by 2013. And for reasons we’ll all recongize: too much time spent dealing with too many emails, of which too few are useful and too many are spam. CEO Thierry Breton said his staff would instead use good old face-to-face communication, as well as instant messaging (IM) and social media tools.
