What are the disadvantages of business e-mail?

What are the disadvantages of business e-mail?

Tim Burress (E-mail Etiquette and Organization Specialist) gives expert video advice on: What are the advantages of business e-mail?; What are the disadvantages of business e-mail? and more...

The disadvantages of business e-mail are that people can use it inappropriately. It's all the positives of business e-mail, just turned negative, so if the fact that you can communicate advantageously with millions of people in e-mail is the great advantage of e-mail, the disadvantage would be that you can communicate with millions of people. Most people might not be interested in that message, and we all experience that through spam. The other interesting disadvantage of business e-mail is there is no cost, so it doesn't really take a lot for me to type a message and send it out in terms of my cost or my time, and so people over-communicate sometimes. Those are some disadvantages of business e-mail.