{"id":744,"date":"2007-03-12T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/no-email-fridays-part-2\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T14:34:11","slug":"no-email-fridays-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/no-email-fridays-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No Email Fridays &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/no-email-fridays\/\">posted on this topic<\/a> last November and here it is popping up again.  Abcnews.com offers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/story?id=2939232&amp;page=1&amp;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\">No E-Mail Fridays Transform Office<\/a>.  An interesting stat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The volume of e-mails has exploded in recent years with over 170 billion now being sent daily around the globe, according to technology market researcher Radacati Group. <strong>That&#8217;s two million every second<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not surprised by that stat.  But here is the piece of data that spawned the idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two and a half years ago, <em>Ellison was receiving an average of 200 e-mails a day<\/em>, many of which went unopened. After getting cyber-indigestion, he sent out a memo to his 5,500 subordinates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m announcing a ban on e-mail every Friday,&#8221; Ellison&#8217;s memo read. &#8220;Get out to meet your teams face-to-face. Pick up the phone and give someone a call. \u20ac\u00a6 I look forward to not hearing from any of you, but stop by as often as you like.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok, that is a serious quantity of email &#8211; you could spend your day just doing email at that rate (I think I have done that before).  I am still an email junkie, but I can support Ellison&#8217;s approach especially since it led to this outcropping:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At U.S. Cellular, no-e-mail-Fridays have been such a success that the company recently instituted a new policy aimed at another corporate vice: <strong>no-meetings-Friday<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We posted on this topic last November and here it is popping up again. Abcnews.com offers No E-Mail Fridays Transform Office. An interesting stat: The volume of e-mails has exploded in recent years with over 170 billion now being sent daily around the globe, according to technology market researcher Radacati Group. That&#8217;s two million every second. I&#8217;m not surprised by that stat. But here is the piece of data that spawned the idea: Two and a half years ago, Ellison was receiving an average of 200 e-mails a day, many of which went unopened. After getting cyber-indigestion, he sent out a memo to his 5,500 subordinates. &#8220;I&#8217;m announcing a ban&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/no-email-fridays-part-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,4,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-c0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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