<A target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030311-killing-e-mail-how-one-company.html?source=nww_rss">While e-mail is a big step up from the hours wasted playing phone-tag</A>, it has become a drain on corporate productivity. Atos Origin, an international IT services company, has begun the process of killing off e-mail and replacing it with more social methods of communication.