You can go too far in the other direction, however. I once had a boss who would write emails to us as if we were clients, not colleagues, with a completely for

You can go too far in the other direction, however. I once had a boss who would write emails to us as if we were clients, not colleagues, with a completely formal style. Internal emails should match internal conversations - not completely blunt, but not sounding like a job application letter, either.