And she was like, ummm, and I was just like, you know, umm, no way, really, like, yeah, and when she was like that, I was just like..umm....
Another cry for meaningful and plain language. This time, somehow surprisingly, coming out of Harvard Business Review.
CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent of the 200 messages employees receive per day are useful and 18 percent is spam. That’s why he hopes the company can eradicate internal emails in 18 months, forcing the company’s 74,000 employees to communicate with each other via instant messaging and a Facebook-style interface.
On the surface the idea sounds ridiculous, but it fact it makes lots of sense. Email is time consuming, difficult to reuse later and often unnecessary. I hope the experiment will succeed.
