Communications overload |
Recently, French IT service provider ATOS Origin announced its intention to be e-mail free for communication between employees in three years. CEO Thierry Breton cited the move as a response to the data explosion that has managers spending five to 20 hours a week attending to e-mail and 25 percent of time at work searching browsers and social network sites.
A part of their solution is to replacee-mail with more efficient social community platforms that bracket communications and assemble information by communities of interest. Another? Restrict non-work browsing. Should You Dump E-mail?
Some of us probably are skeptical that anything other than "unplugging" or "ignoring" messages will work. The whole movement of communications in recent years has been towards "ubiquity" in terms of ability to reach people anytime, anywhere, using a variety of modes including social networks, instant messaging, blogs, text messages, voice, email, tweets, video messages and more unified communications software.
Mobile communications, which according to some studies already is the preferred mode of voice communications, and rapidly becoming the main messaging platform and Internet access portal as well, is a key contributor.
Device | More this year | More next year |
Mobile | 33.6% | 39.1% |
38.4% | 34.2% | |
Texting (SMS) | 30.7% | 32.2% |
Social networks | 26.5% | 26.2% |
Desktop video | 12.8% | 26% |
Instant messaging | 18.6% | 21.3% |
VoiP calling | 12.1% | 21.3% |
Source: Skype (December 2010)
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