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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers
Message-ID: <5978@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 89 14:58:40 GMT
References: <9676@venera.isi.edu> <189@crucible.UUCP> <291@voa3.UUCP> <7765@microsoft.UUCP> <425@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <425@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
<In article <7765@microsoft.UUCP>, philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil Barrett) writes:

<| At the `soft', we use email to tremendous benefit.  I've worked at companies
<| that didn't have email and I found that dealing with people outside your
<| immediate group to be incredibly inefficient -- phone tag and notes left
<| on peoples desks for example.  [ more good stuff on email ]

<You're not alone in that. [...]
<A recent user survey on
<services provided, email was rated as "important to productivity" or
<"very important to productivity" by more respondents than any other
<service we provide.

Yes. But what do you do about computer-phobes that refuse to read their
email on a regular basis (or at all), and those people (who are typically
important) who demand printed copies of everything? I tried to go paperless
back about 1979, to no avail. 

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
Standard Disclaimers Apply
"Word Processing" since 1975.
Email since 1978 (roughly)