August 20, 2007

Email the communication tool for business.

Despite what many people feel about email, what with the dreaded Spam and other more serious matters like phishing and emails containing viruses and the like. Email has become the preferred method of communication for business, with around six trillion business emails sent in 2006 alone.

The figures come from research done by Dimension Data, they found that 99.6 % of workers use email, while 80% used land lines, 76% mobile phones and 66% used instant messaging as a means of communicating. The figures came from thirteen countries in Europe, Middle East and America. While the UK only figures were very similar, 98% email, 81% landlines, 74% mobiles phones and 67% using instant messaging.

So the UK figures are almost identical to the world figures for preferred business communications.

Source [Scotsman]