What are 'No E-mail Fridays'?

What are 'No E-mail Fridays'?

Tim Burress (E-mail Etiquette and Organization Specialist) gives expert video advice on: What sites are not allowed to be viewed at the office of most businesses?; Can I check my myspace at the office? and more...

No e-mail Friday is an attempt at some companies to limit the amount of e-mail and try to restore some of the face to face communications. But we are so reliant on e-mail today, and we all operate in it so much, we feel very comfortable there, so most people find a work around. So a company that institutes a policy like "Hey let's not e-mail on Friday, let's all have conversations," people tend to do all their e-mails all day long on Friday but just will use the function of delay sending them at midnight that night or Saturday morning. So what results is a huge amount of e-mails at midnight, crashing servers and IT people having to come in over the weekend to repair. Most corporations that we see that have instituted things like no e-mail Fridays are very unsuccessful because people work around them.