Susanna Kim for ABC News, (via Yahoo):

You’ve got mail–not. Employees of tech company Atos will be banned from sending emails under the company’s new “zero email” policy.CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent of the 200 messages employees receive per day are useful and 18 percent is spam. That’s why he hopes the company can eradicate internal emails in 18 months, forcing the company’s 74,000 employees to communicate with each other via instant messaging and a Facebook-style interface.

It’s an interesting, and somewhat bizarre, concept – a rather extreme solution to the omnipresent issue of workplace spam. This isn’t a startup company trying this on a lark, either. Atos is a multi-billion dollar multinational with offices in 42 countries.