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&lt;p&gt;&quot;Email is on the way out,&quot; says Thierry Breton, CEO and Chairman of Atos Origin, from the podium at one of the firm&#39;s CEO Innovation Press Conferences.  A bold declaration indeed from Master Breton!  Regardless of the accuracy of that near-irreverent sentiment on the world stage, there is little question that email is, in fact, on its way out at Atos Origin.   Yesterday, the firm unveiled &quot;its ambition to be a zero email company within three years&quot; in an effort to combat &quot;information pollution.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/articles/atos_origin.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;233&quot; height=&quot;127&quot;&gt;So what&#39;s Breton&#39;s rationale behind ridding his company of the world&#39;s most popular method of non-verbal communication?  &quot;Information pollution&quot; is starting to become a drag on business, he suggests, where once the transfer of information facilitated better collaboration and insight.  &quot;We are producing data on a massive scale that is fast polluting our working environments and also encroaching into our personal lives,&quot; Breton explains.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Atos consultants tell us that businesspeople receive an average of 200 emails each working day, with 18 percent of the deluge attributed to spam.  As a result, the firm says, &quot;Managers spend between 5 and 20 hours a week reading and writing emails.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That &quot;information overload&quot;, Breton argues, is unacceptable.  Accordingly his firm has already begun the intriguing process of transition from an email-based business community to other, more discerning IT platforms.  &quot;At Atos Origin we have set up collaboration tools and social community platforms, to share and keep track of ideas on subjects from innovation and Lean Management through to sales,&quot; says Breton.  &quot;Businesses need to do more of this&amp;mdash;email is on the way out as the best way to run a company and do business.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However Atos chooses to go forward, Breton sees parallels between the fight against information pollution and its environmental cousin.  &quot;At Atos Origin we are taking action now to reverse this trend, just as organizations took measures to reduce environmental pollution after the industrial revolution,&quot; he says.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; Atos Origin sets out its ambition to be a zero email company within three years&lt;/p&gt;

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