Stop E-mailing the Entire Company!

In the last two weeks or so the entire organization (or significant portions thereof) have been treated to mass e-mail blasts with multiple attached Microsoft Word documents.  Simple messages with a paragraph or so of text and an attached file or files (candidate bios, itineraries) that should have been put on an intranet site, a wiki, or an HR Blog even.  Instead hundreds to possibly a couple of thousand people got these e-mails.  Those who were not interested had to at least take a few seconds to make that decision, those who were had to open the attachments, download to the desktop and open them up, (assuming their e-mail storage quota has not been reached).

But perhaps I am asking too much.  Why the blast e-mails to everyone with attachments?  Maybe because getting anything posted or changed on the intranet means getting IT involved (ugh), there is no company-wide wiki (how come?), and no one in HR blogs (boo!).

Keep those e-mails coming.