{"id":3590,"date":"2011-11-29T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T16:18:37","slug":"loling-and-leaving-noemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/loling-and-leaving-noemail\/","title":{"rendered":"LOLing and Leaving #noemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/nov\/27\/john-naughton-mark-zuckerberg-email\">Observer (UK) writer John Naughton are LOLing<\/a> over Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s observation that email is dead,&#8221; others, like Atos SA (Europe&#8217;s Largest IT Company) CEO Theirry Breton are kicking email out of their companies.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thierry Breton - Credits:  France T\u00e9l\u00e9com\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/hash\/76\/3f\/763f77324fac8f1ed627bf818f016fed.jpg\" title=\"Thierry Breton - Credits:  France T\u00e9l\u00e9com\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"210\" height=\"162\" \/><br \/>\nBreton&#8217;s pronouncements got ink (err electrons too) in <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204452104577060103165399154.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/8921033\/Staff-to-be-banned-from-sending-emails.html\">The Telegraph (UK)<\/a> yesterday before getting <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/11\/11\/29\/0232205\/europes-largest-it-company-to-ban-internal-email\">the hyperactive Slashdot treatment.<\/a> today. Among the firebombs tossed by Breton were: <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The email is no longer the appropriate (communication) tool. The deluge of information will be one of the most important problems a company will have to face (in the future). It is time to think differently.&#8221; <\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8220;Companies must prepare for the new wave of usage and behaviour&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Obvious statements to folks reading this blog or who have since shutoff email themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Not that everyone agrees. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/life-the-cubicle-in-national\/worst-ceo-of-2011-thierry-breton-of-atos-or-reed-hastings-of-netflix\">Dudley Dawson at examiner.com<\/a> composed a long whine about Breton including a critic of his English (or of the translator&#8217;s version of Breton. I await to read with some anticipated glee Dawson&#8217;s French postings.) Dawson raises many points, misfiring on each and misinterpreting all while missing the main point &#8212; collaboration and social are less served by email.<\/p>\n<p>But with Atos and IBM both pushing for #noemail workplaces, Naughton&#8217;s claim that <em>&#8220;[T]he main reason young people don&#8217;t use email is that they haven&#8217;t yet joined the world of work&#8221;<\/em> becomes more empty and obviously reactionary and tired. Work at great companies isn&#8217;t about getting stuck in unproductive technologies but about pressing forward to a more efficient and productive future &#8212; without email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some like Observer (UK) writer John Naughton are LOLing over Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s observation that email is dead,&#8221; others, like Atos SA (Europe&#8217;s Largest IT Company) CEO Theirry Breton are kicking email out of their companies. Breton&#8217;s pronouncements got ink (err electrons too) in Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph (UK) yesterday before getting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}