[LINK] email free time/days

[Rick Welykochy]

Jan Whitaker wrote:

> I don't know who made that up about google and intel designing 
> [whatever that means] email, but the concept of email free periods is 
> interesting.
> Jan
> 
>> Google And Intel Give Staff Break From Email
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Having designed email in the first place, Google and Intel have now

This must be from some news digest. The original article does not
say the above. It is ludicrous.

But there are some ludicrous "back of envelope" calculations in the
article, i.e.

    The distractions cost American businesses $650?billion (£326?billion)
    a year. If the problem is as bad in Britain, the likely cost to
    British business is more than £50?billion a year.

Perhaps the question marks indicate as much.

The idea of email-free time/days seems like corporate nannyship. Are
people so undisciplined that they cannot TURN OFF their IM, shutdown
their email program, etc.etc?

And someone is working on a way to search old emails for information!
How innovative.


cheers
rickw



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