Productivity

The Corrosive Effect of E-Mail

E-mail was intendend to make work easier. In fact, the simple communication corrodes structured workflows and becomes the work itself.

Dr. Marcus Raitner
4 min readOct 26, 2020

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In com­plex social sys­tems, tech­nol­o­gy always unfolds unex­pect­ed side effects. When IBM intro­duced an inter­nal e‑mail sys­tem in the…

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Dr. Marcus Raitner

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