![]() ![]() You could call them up, but you actually need the confirmation in writing. Perhaps it’s confirmation of a specific point in a project that needs to be signed off. We’ve all experienced it: you email a colleague, only to be left waiting on a response. But the power of such written communication doesn’t mean it is completely problem-free. Imagine the power!Ĭertainly, the emergence of email has changed the way we do business forever. Overnight, there was a way to send your memo instantly to a colleague even if they were in a regional office on the other side of the world. Memos, of course, are very much like email, just much slower: written by hand (or dictated) and typed up by a secretary checked, corrected, and re-typed in full then sent physically in envelopes around the office via in and out-trays, or across town, or even further afield at the ‘speed of human’.Įnter the desktop computer, the word processor, and email, and suddenly everything changed. But is it the quickest, most fluid and simple way of communicating professionally? Our post today argues that despite the still valid presence of email, using Microsoft’s Skype for Business for communicating with your colleagues will reduce your internal bottlenecks and free you up to get better work done, faster.īefore the emergence of email, the way the office communicated with itself-management with employees, team leaders with their teams-were with the use of memorandums. So, if you were thinking that email is on the same inevitable decline that you and I are on, you were wrong. Most of us use it every day and most of us will continue to use it despite other communication technology moving in on email’s once undisputed territory.Īs of 2014, there were 122,500,453,020 emails sent every hour. Email is as much a part of professional life as caffeine or the office radio. That’s a growth of over 26 percent testament to the staying power of one of the greatest business disrupters since the typewriter. The number of email accounts is predicted to reach 5.59 billion by 2019.
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