{"id":4184,"date":"2012-01-17T18:17:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T23:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2012-01-17T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T23:17:53","slug":"staff-to-be-banned-from-sending-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4184","title":{"rendered":"Staff to be banned from sending emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;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; Reading useless messages is terrible for concentration, as it takes 64 seconds to get back on the ball after doing so, according to a recent study by the social and business responsibility watchdog ORSE. &#8220;Poorly controlled, the email can become a devastating tool,&#8221; it warned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is more and more criticism of email and how it can distract you. Here is an article from the Telegraph about a French company where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/8921033\/Staff-to-be-banned-from-sending-emails.html\">Staff to be banned from sending emails<\/a>. What is interesting is that the CEO of Atos is advocating using instant messaging and a Facebook-like social network. This is supposed to be less distracting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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; Reading useless messages is terrible for concentration, as it takes 64 seconds to get back on the ball after doing so, according to a recent study by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staff to be banned from sending emails<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}