Don't leave voice mails.

Don’t leave voice mails.

communicatrix:

Many businesspeople under 40 have officially stopped listening to their voice mail. Instead, they consult their call log, call back anyone they know or who seems intriguing, and figure everybody else will follow up through another digital avenue if it’s really important. A voice mail, young people say, is almost by definition something you don’t want to listen to: Information too complex or charged to be set down in an email, but not so sensitive it has to be delivered in person. In other words, it’s your mom-equivalent calling.

—Pamela Redmond Satran, author of “How Not to Act Old,” in an interview with Marci Alboher

Thank you, young people.

I have never received a voicemail that did not require either a call back, or an email for further clarification. The phone is for real time, person to person communication. Other things do asynchronous communication far, far better.

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