Save money by disabling ‘Reply to All’

Unnecessary email wastes time and productivity. We all know this. What are we doing about it? According to Folio’s Dylan Stableford, publishing giant Nielsen disabled Outlook’s “Reply to All” functionality to “eliminate bureaucracy and inefficiency.”

Read the e-mail message, sent out by Nielsen’s CIO, Andrew Cawood — and then read the scathing comments. Fascinating. What do you think about this?

By the way, at our company, we have the opposite problem. Too often, employees inappropriately use “Reply” instead of “Reply to All,” and suddenly cut their team or committee out of an important discussion thread, leaving everyone wondering what’s going on, if an action was taken, etc.