Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.
I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.
I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.
Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.
To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.
E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
E-mails are the cancer of modern business.
E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
I see email being used, by and large, exactly the way I envisioned. In particular, it's not strictly a work tool or strictly a personal thing. Everybody uses it in different ways, but they use it in a way they find works for them.