A Zero Email Policy from Europe's Largest IT Company

Can getting rid of email save time? This brings up questions (Doesn’t using chat as your primary communication tool interrupt focus? What if you need to say something in longer than 2 sentences?), but is interesting to consider. 

10 per cent of the 200 electronic messages his employees receive per day on average turn out to be useful, and that staff spend between 5-20 hours handling emails every week. 

 ‘The email is no longer the appropriate (communication) tool,’ says Breton. ‘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.’