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MUMBAI: Email is dead, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg declared famously last November. Now, Thierry Breton, chief executive officer of Atos, one of Europe's largest IT companies, wants to show the world how a 6-billion company can be run without internal emails. Breton recently vowed that after 2014 none of Atos' 80,000 employees will ever send an email to another.

We use email for instant communication, which is a bad way to use emails," he told ET during a recent visit to India. "We use email for archiving data, which is a bad way to do it. We use email to send global information to everyone - this is also a bad way to communicate; we use email to manage processes, which is a bad way to do it. We have many bad usages of email." Breton plans to replace email with social networking tools, which he believes will be more efficient.

Atos is now a year into what it calls the 'Zero-email programme'.
There is so much enthusiasm for new communication tools that once people start using them they don't want to go back to email.
Source: The Economic Times

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