This is especially interesting because the company employs 74,000 people. Email is not the most efficient tool so this sounds a little bit too extreme, but even so, ditching one-on-one discussions or even emailing a team is really old fashioned and has to go. It's inefficient and the organization ends up missing out on too much information. It will be fun to watch the impact of such a giant in the IT world (at least over here in Europe, where Atos is based) and whether others jump on the bandwagon. ABC News:
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.
Caroline Crouch, a spokeswoman for the company, told ABC News the goal is focused on internal emails rather than external emails with clients and partners. Atos has already reduced the number of internal emails by 20 percent in six months.
When asked how employees have responded to the policy, Crouch told ABC News the overall response “has been positive with strong take up of alternative tools.”
