Back in 2011, the CEO of Atos expressed his frustration with the amount of time his employees were spending on email, and promised to eliminate email from the company within three years.

Fast-forward three years, and the Contact page on the Atos web site still sports email addresses. Not as easy as you thought, right? Maybe that’s because email has distinct advantages over other forms of online communication. In particular, email is far less likely to be overlooked by the recipient, than, say, a Facebook post.

Update 2022Oct14: Atos is still using email.