7 Simple Rules for Reducing Email Within Your Team

  1. Only email someone when you need them to take a specific action
  2. Use Yammer for Questions
  3. Only CC/include those who need to be in the know (99% of the time this is not done)
  4. BCC people after they are not needed
  5. Try to gchat someone instead, as it won’t clog his/her inbox
  6. Don’t respond for the sake of responding
  7. Be respectful of people’s inboxes on the team, they usually need to be doing work not email :)
BONUS: If you MUST send an email, keep it super-short and to the point