Email-Free Fridays

Believing that there is a danger from email overload, British Energy CIO, Ian Campbell has introduced a series of 'email-free Fridays' in the IT department, according to an interview in Silicon.com.

"You try not to send emails to each other but go and see them or talk to them and spend time with them. And although we know it will never eliminate email at the moment it actually helps to spend time with people."

He further stated:

"Collaboration is a big one for us. It's a huge productivity saving. If we were five people and I sent out a document to four people and everyone sent back their version plus one to everyone else you've suddenly got 16 versions of the same document. How do you control that? Collaboration puts it in one place. What will happen in the future as collaboration and other tools come on board is we will filter and will pool what we want. Over the next couple of years that will make our lives easier."