Complaints about email abound. Perhaps you’ve heard some of these or uttered them in pain yourself: I receive hundreds of emails a day. I can spend my whole day responding to incoming messages. I can’t find anything in my inbox. In response, some companies are taking drastic steps to help workers manage the number of messages they receive. The CEO of Atos, a French IT services company, has vowed to ban internal email by 2013. Volkswagen in Germany has agreed to stop sending emails to certain employees after work hours. If these companies are taking radical action, is it time for you to do the same to counter your own overload?
Starting now, we will only send you a weekly newsletter stating the lastest events, publications and any industry related stuff. This means, no more mails for an event there, a reminder over this fancy old mail address and some other mails, where you have to ask yourself what to do and reply first to understand what you read. Make sure you add our new email address to your contacts.
We all know it will be difficult for all of us, as we have built a culture of forwarding without thinking, reminding you about things you have never heard in the first part and so on.
All Mails, all information will be centrally gathered and then sent on Monday mornings each week. If there is nothing to say – well then we will not send you an email – very simple.
To make sure you will receive this mails, make sure you add our new mail address to your contact information. You will receive this mails as you are now in the mailing list we put together with the help of SPE International. If not, make sure you become a member here.
We have informed our friends at the department, at our represented societies to forward all mails to us first so we can summarize it into our weekly mail. Of course this will work only if we all pull together on one string and we are looking forward making the life easier for you.
If there is an event you signed up to – you will get a reminder normally 48h before the event or if necessary more information. But we will talkt about our events in a different topic, as we also changed there some things for you.