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I love this idea, except that the conclusion about something being a moderately bad use of company resources doesn't necessarily follow. The benefits of things
by natch 13y ago
I love this idea, except that the conclusion about something being a moderately bad use of company resources doesn't necessarily follow. The benefits of things like team rapport are hard to quantify, but that doesn't mean they should be dismissed as waste. The same goes for things that certain individuals feel are a waste.
Taking jokes, just one subset of such emails, as an example: For you, a particular joke may be a waste, but having the team culture be such that it is open to jokes, may provide benefits beyond each individual joke.
Still, great idea, and maybe the objections I raise could be overcome just by the right wording.
- shubb 13y agoThat is true, but at a very large multinational, I used to recieve over 100 send to all emails a day, and three real ones. Some of the 'send to all' emails were pretty important, so I had to read them, but a lot of them added nothing, and were sent to 400'000 people. I think each inappropriate global send to all cost $1000+, assuming people disgarded it pretty quickly. +Low estimate, assuming it takes 1 second to disgard the email, everyone reads it, and gets paid minimum wage.
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