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Saturday, October 04, 2003
 Phones 4u bans not just personal email but any internal email, on the basis that employees are spending up to 3 hours a day dealing with it. Not doing so is predicted to save around £12m a year.
Phones 4u are part of the highly successful telecommunications company, The Caudwell Group. Founded in 1986 by John Caudwell, the company operates in 5 countries employing over 3000 people worldwide.
We wonder if this is really just a sign of bad management, and the company is further compounding it by banning what most of us regard as a indispensable tool. Max Nathan et al over at the iSociety part of the Work Foundation have a good few things to say about such things.
There are plenty of tools to support the management of email and indeed IT generally in the workplace, for example email firewalls, and email archiving systems to get to grips on the inbox overload. Perhaps Phones 4u should look to deploy some of these, equally we suggest the company employs a good management consultant too.
Related Links
Easing the burden, Guardian Online article by Jim McClellan
Phones 4u
Birmingham City to gag staff
The Work Foundation : iSociety
posted by Robert Campbell 7:38 PM
 The need for Email Archiving is become more obvious and its not just restricted to regulated industries but in a more general sense it could protect you and your company from litigation.
According to some reports the gossip mongers in cyberspace speculating on the professional footballers in the alleged rape case are at risk of being taken to court for defamation. Indeed it seems one such individual has already been so warned and has been suspended from work.
ecommnet has some strong views on email archiving and have recently published a list of Compelling reasons to choose Mailstore rather than KVS's Enterprise Vault or EDUCOM's EAS for your email archiving requirements
Mailstore is the only email archiving solution that natively supports digital signing and encryption of the archive, producing a truly tamper proof archive. Others such as KVS's Enterprise Vault rely heavily on EMC's Centera storage solution.
KVS's reliance upon EMC for much of it's so called compliance is somewhat suspect too as EMC recently bought Legato and along with it acquired their own archival product, Legato EX which itself acquired last year from OTG. KVS make a big play on their relationship with EMC but in reality they are just another reseller.
Legato's EX also suffers from all the same issues as Enterprise Vault and EAS, in that it does not address the real issues of audit and security.
Related Links
Compelling reasons to choose Mailstore rather than KVS's Enterprise Vault or EDUCOM's EAS for your email archiving requirements
What Is EMC Up to by Buying Legato?
Sarbanes-Oxley legislation
Email rape gossip could land companies in the dock
Football 'rape' case prompts net debate
posted by Robert Campbell 6:39 PM
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