Ben Davis says, “We’ve hated internal email for so long, but only a few businesses have got rid of it altogether.

Accepting it as a necessary evil, here are eight ways to reduce the bureaucracy of email, and make office life more bearable and your organisation more efficient.

1. ‘Four sentences’

In a recent correspondence with PR Matt Mirandi, I noticed his email signature, which declared: “Q: Why is this email four sentences or less? A: http://four.sentenc.es

If you follow the link you’ll see the remarkably simple premise – limiting the length of email responses (where desired). Short emails can be composed and the signature explains that far from being curt, the intention is to increase the efficiency of communication.

Anyone who works in a busy administrative job understands the burden that email can become. Being able to respond quickly, with brevity, perhaps in lower case, with little care for grammar or courtesy, can be a massive help.

This is an elegant solution to a particularly British dilemma”.

Eight ways to kill email bureaucracy in your organisation

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