E-mail - responsible for social laziness

Hidden in Sydney's free MX newspaper tonight was short report on an Australian survey that claims e-mail has led to social laziness in workplace with people taking little responsibility for follow-through. But it won't really come as much of a surprise to learn that people use e-mail to exacerbrate conflict and power play one person off against another...

BTW Talking of e-mail in the workplace, you can now download an article on my main Website, called For better, or worse: Living with e-mail in the workplace where I discuss the need for a organisational-wide response to dealing with information overload.

Tags: e-mail in the workplace, information overload