*!#@& The E-Mail
Younger staffs are using emails or text-messaging as their default mode of discussion. How true is this sentence? I think whoever sees this agrees with it. My friend working in a private company also tells me her situation in her company. She tells me that she communicates with her colleague which sitting just next to her cubicle by text-messaging. When she stands up, she could talk to her, but they simply like to communicate through text messaging. This is the reason why the CEO want to launch a “no e-mail Fridays” campaign.
This is a good idea for cohesion in company. There are also pros and cons for the introduction of the campaign. The pros will certainly be on the cohesion and encourage teamwork. The cons will be on the introverts which might become self-closing instead of opening up their thoughts. However, if it is able to get them to open up their thoughts, it will benefit the company.
Although emails and text-messaging is a good way of communication, it is hidden with a lot of faults in the messaging. With smiley faces and exclamation points, it will add a layer of confusion for recipient to understand it meanings.
Those sentences which appears in email might be destructive if interprets wrongly; especially where there is recipient in the CC and BCC fields. From the local film, Just Follow Law, you can understand the meaning of a real business class email.
References:
The Business Week, *!#@ The E-Mail. Can We Talk?, viewed 14th March 2009, <http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_49/b4012096.htm>
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