No email day

[dangerousdom]

My company want to introduce a no email day (internal only) is this possible to implement.
I can't turn off internal mail totally because some systems need to send emails internally. Is it possible to implement on a per user basis?

Do other companies still have these days??

 

[58sniper]

Do other companies still have these days??

Can't say I've heard that one before.

I'm not aware of any way to institute this easily. So you're not going to allow them to receive email from the outside on specific days of the week? Are you going to notify everyone in the world not to send your users email on a specific day?

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author The Complete Reference: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

 

[strongm]

>So you're not going to allow them to receive email from the outside

I think it is worse/trickier than that. I think the OP also wants to block internal email - except from automated systems

 

[noveyron]

Your best way to tackle this would probably be by traditional management methods rather than attempting to provide a technological solution.

You only want to prevent users from receiving internal mail, whilst allowing them to send and receive external.

The only way that I can see to do this would be to have management insist that on "X" date, nobody is allowed to send internal mail. This would rightly put the onus on the sender rather the receiver. You would be able to provide the management with information on who has sent internally if required.

The limitations detailed in your question do not really lend themselves to any other solution, as far as I am aware.

And no, I have never heard of any other organisations having a no email day either, email is normally an integral part of an organisation's communications strategy, rather than some convenient chat/gossip conduit to be turned on or off at will

 

[dangerousdom]

fantastic, exactly what I wanted to hear!

Thanks a lot everybody

 

[RichardMoran]

There are lots of companies looking at 'no e-mail days'. Just do a Google, and you'll see articles on big companies like Intel, US Cellular, and Deloitte and Touche. Several companies here in London have mentioned to me that they were looking at it.

I personally think it's nonsense, and agree with noveyron that it's an integral part of your communication strategy. You might as well have a 'no telephones' day, and refuse to answer the phone all day!

Mmmm, that might actually be a good thing for IT Support!!!

Rik

 

[zbnet]

As Ed Crowley once famously said: "there are seldom good technological solutions to behavioural problems".