use of email
The use of email has become almost mandatory in most U. ... workers with Internet access at their workplaces has grown from under 30 million in March 2000 (the first month the Pew Internet & American Life Project began to monitor Americans’ Internet use) to over 57 million in October 2002. Almost all (98%) of these employed Americans have email accounts. Most American employers have provided Internet access with email accounts to employees hoping that this will help them become more collaborative with colleagues and customers, and thus more productive in their work. But recently, the public imagination has been hit with warnings that whatever boons email provided at work have been compromised by a deluge of unwanted electronic communications. ... [1] A director of an international relief group, worried about employees’ productivity loss, considers instituting an email-free day a week to liberate employees for tasks at hand.