More email translates to less productivity as workers spend more time weeding their inboxes and puzzling over convoluted exchanges among a hodgepodge of colleagues and managers scattered in various offices -or sometimes just a cubicles away. To exacerbate matters, vital pieces of business information are often corralled in a worker’s inbox instead of in a database that can be searched by anyone working on the same project.
Dustin Moskovitz is plotting an escape from email.