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    According to Vice President Deva Hazarika (who is also chief executive of ClearContext Corp. , a software development corporation), the nonprofit group formed when a number of researchers, academics and software developers came together to discuss the challenges they were seeing in corporations. "We all felt that information overload was something that was such a big problem that some companies were beginning to be aware of it but a lot of people didn't realize the magnitude of the problem ... And we could increase awareness." Ironically, a number of the group's members work for the companies that created software that caused the problem in the first place -- including four at Microsoft Research, creator of Outlook. Full Article at Chicago Tribune
    We all felt that information overload was something that was such a big problem that some companies were beginning to be aware of it but a lot of people didn't realize the magnitude of the problem ... And we could increase awareness.
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 15 months ago
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You've got too much e-mail
  1. If it's a multi-party case, it may generate maybe 20 e-mails from other people ... So as you're trying to focus on it, you're getting this ping-ping-ping as people are chattering about the e-mail.
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 15 months ago
  2. EMAIL shall henceforth be known as EFAIL.
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 15 months ago
  3. There are no business hours.
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 15 months ago
  4. E-mail is used as a self-validation tool by people to procrastinate and to re-create activity versus productivity
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 15 months ago

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