Why Most Company Email are Worthless

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External News Details

A study by Eric Gilbert (Interactive Computing) examined hundreds of thousands of messages and found that about 15 percent of the essentially amounted to gossip - emails in which the sender and recipient discussed thrid parties in ways that had no business impact. Source: CBS News

Additional Information

Groups

College of Computing, School of Interactive Computing

Categories
Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Digital Media and Entertainment
Keywords
Eric Gilbert; hierarchy; email; workplace; gossip; Enron; Enron Corpus
Status
  • Created By: Michaelanne Dye
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jun 22, 2012 - 4:56am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:25pm