“Almost a quarter of corporate email is really personal communication, says a recent study of North American workers. 23% of the messages in employee inboxes are personal in nature, the study says, and about 33% are spam. That means that more than half of corporate email has nothing to do with business. (Source: Mirapoint and the Radicati Group.)”
As long as we’re talking about meaningless data; how about this? Over 50% of corporate meetings are a useless waste of time. Over 50% of all business calls involve some personal conversation.
Most “smart” corporations know that the personal and social interchange between workers via the lunch room, the water cooler and email are valuable; to the corporation. Ideas are exchanged and rumors dispelled by personal conversation, not by corporate edict. The good that comes from this kind of interaction has always outweighed the bad. Yet there are always a few managers that can’t stand to see all of those noses away from the grindstone…
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