No E-mail Day
Productivity at the office is increasingly becoming an issue. The industry giant Intel has introduced “no e-mail days” to encourage Intel engineers to get off their behinds, move out of their cubicles and talk to one another, rather than sending an e-mail to a co-worker just a few steps away. You can read the entire story at BBC News: Technology.
With inboxes bulging with messages and many workers dreading the daily deluge of e-mail, some companies are taking drastic action.
Intel has become the latest in an increasingly long line of companies to launch a so-called ‘no e-mail day’.
On Fridays, 150 of its engineers revert to more old-fashioned means of communication.
In actual fact e-mail isn’t strictly forbidden but engineers are encouraged to talk to each other face to face or pick up the phone rather than rely on e-mail.
In Intel’s case the push to look again at the culture of e-mail followed a comment from chief executive Paul Otellini criticising engineers “who sit two cubicles apart sending an e-mail rather than get up and talk”
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First there was a no socializing policy, now they’re trying to decrease e-mails. Hmm.
why not ;p those lazy engineers
N. – I saw a recent article that bosses are now encouraging office romance as a stabilizing factor! (Definitely not Kuwait)
EniGma – I don’t even believe lazy and engineer can be used in the same sentence! I have never met a lazy engineer!
lol! Office romance? That’s sneaky isn’t it? Are they hoping that if employees get together, they’d probably stay longer and decrease employee turnover! lol, that’s quite funny.
N – I think that’s exactly it. Big change, huh?
“I have never met a lazy engineer!”
I don’t think you know a lot of computer engineers lol
Blueberri – Well, you know, they always LOOK busy, peering at their screen with a slight frown on their face, they look like they are fixing things, not having a good time!