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on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:25PM
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.
Sure, you can set an out-of-office auto-reply to let others know they shouldn't email you, but that doesn't usually stop the messages; you may still have to handle those urgent-but-not-really requests while you're on vacation. That's not a problem if you work at Daimler, though. The German automaker recently installed software that not only auto-replies to email sent while staff is away, but deletes it outright. If there's a meltdown at the workplace, you may not have to deal with it at all. The move affects about 100,000 employees, so it's clearly going to make an impact.
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Daimler's Solution for Annoying Out-of-Office Email: Delete it
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 18 2014, @11:53AM
I wonder if this will result in an increase in total email flow?
Locally we use email as our trouble ticketing system (we have at least three others, very carefully curated to act as a source of good metric results not for actual troubleshooting) and we use email as what amounts to a wiki replacement because none of the non-technical users can be bothered with real wiki / CMS sites we have. And we use it as a spam delivery service "Its employee appreciation day tomorrow (last week friday, although I won't get the email until next week monday) and carrot cake will be available in the cafeteria between noon and 1 pm". We also use email for to do list work, again because we have a "real" tool for that task but thats only for metric generation purposes and pencil whipping, not real use.
If you randomly delete incoming email that will be "worked around" my simply sending even more emails for all the above categories. So a policy that whoever is working on a problem needs to forward it to someone working the next day who will spam everyone. And another policy to spam spam spam multiple days with any wiki-type documentation to make sure everyone gets at least one copy. HR will send "casual day" notifications and similar spam every single day for a month before diversity celebration day to make sure everyone gets at least one copy. Finally we'll implement something like human operated TCP protocol to make sure todo lists are synced up. Equaling an explosive growth in email volume.
(Score: 2) by monster on Monday August 18 2014, @01:41PM
Wasn't spam already +90% of email traffic? Even sending all legitimate mail again would be just a 10% increase in traffic, and this scheme is only for vacations, so much less.