At world’s top IT fair, firms mull death of email

“You want to get rid of email? Good luck with that,” smiles Tom Reuner, an IT analyst at British firm Ovum.

But at the CeBIT, the world’s biggest high-tech fair in the northern German city of Hanover, some firms are considering doing just that, as studies show that workers spend nearly one third of their day sorting through emails.

The French firm Atos, for example, plans to shift its internal communications onto a Facebook-style social networking platform by next year.

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