Chinwag's Old Blog: 80% of Biz Users Prefer Email to Phone

A snippet from Meta Group's April study featured in the ever-useful eMarketer Daily, provides confirmation that email usage in the corporate world dominates the volume of communications. 80% of respondents preferred email to phone. Interestingly, the speed and effectiveness of email weren't the key factors. The top three reasons were:

  1. Response flexibility (80%)
  2. Easily communicate with many people (83%)
  3. Electronic 'paper' trail of conversation is created
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