Fortune 500 CEO Sends Company-Wide Email Condemning Reply All; 14,000 Employees Reply All to Agree

CAMBRIDGE, MA — An MIT study published Monday found that 97 percent of all "Reply All" emails in corporate environments could have been replaced by silence. "We analyzed 14 million emails across 200 companies," said lead researcher Dr. Anil Gupta. "The vast majority consisted of 'Thanks!', 'Sounds good!', 'Looping in Jeff,' and one woman who shared her grocery list with the entire legal department of Deloitte." The study estimated that eliminating unnecessary Reply Alls would save the U.S. economy $4.6 billion annually. Meridian Corp CEO Brian Tully responded by sending a company-wide email to 40,000 employees titled "Let's All Commit to Fewer Reply Alls." Within an hour, 14,000 employees had replied all to say they agreed. Dr. Gupta's team is now studying an even deadlier phenomenon: the meeting that could have been an email that could have been nothing.