{"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-sales-management","category-team-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-c0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":462,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/no-email-fridays\/","url_meta":{"origin":744,"position":0},"title":"No Email Fridays","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I am an email junkie so I wasn't aware of any \"problems\" until I read this BusinessWeek article - *!#@ The E-Mail. Can We Talk? The problem isn't the distraction of spam or stuffed inboxes. Nor is it the potential for legal liability. The concern, say academics and management thinkers,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1234,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/the-demise-of-no-email-fridays\/","url_meta":{"origin":744,"position":1},"title":"The Demise Of No Email Fridays?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I posted on No Email Fridays\u00a0back in March of this year.\u00a0 Well, now it appears a revolt has occurred at that company.\u00a0 According to CareerJournal.com's Employers Try 'No Email' Days, But Workers Are Fighting Back: When U.S. Cellular's chief operating officer, Jay Ellison, imposed a \"no email Friday\" rule at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":792,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/a-brief-history-of-email\/","url_meta":{"origin":744,"position":2},"title":"A Brief History Of Email","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We've discussed no email Fridays here before and now this morning I\u00a0kick up this CareerJournal.com article regarding the use of other communication channels.\u00a0 Instant messaging is popular here at Select Metrix and does work well as a companion tool to email.\u00a0 In case you didn't know the history of email:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":817,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/the-dawn-of-corporate-text-messaging\/","url_meta":{"origin":744,"position":3},"title":"The Dawn Of Corporate Text Messaging","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We are gradually moving\u00a0towards instant messaging for our internal communications at Select Metrix and away from email.\u00a0 Speed is a big part of this move for us, but email spam is also driving the change.\u00a0 I have a difficult time imagining email disappearing all together, but this article from Inc.com\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":605,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/this-post-will-self-destruct-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":744,"position":4},"title":"This Post Will Self Destruct In&#8230;","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Now this seems like a good idea - from Inc.com's Secure Your E-mail, Mission Impossible Style: BigString, which provides free, large-storage, Web-based e-mail accounts, allows users to send recallable, changeable, erasable, non-printable and self-destructing e-mails. E-mail senders can also track who reads an email and can control the number of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2202,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/12\/a-fantasy-football-firing\/","url_meta":{"origin":744,"position":5},"title":"A Fantasy Football Firing","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"As a long-time fantasy football player, I am terrified by this story of a termination that occurred in Texas (one of the football capitals of this country).\u00a0 The quick details: Pettigrew and three other Fidelity employees were fired for playing fantasy football. \"Firing a guy for being in a $20\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Retention&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Retention","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/retention\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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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