While today's office workers CC colleagues with a flood of email, few remember what the handy feature once stood for. CC harks back to the days before photocopiers, when secretaries created multiple documents by carbon copying. This tedious and exhausting process allowed no more than four duplicates to be made at a time, limiting most memoranda to crucial communications.Speaking in technological terms, countless centuries have since passed. With email, we've crossed the threshold of critical convenience, and we often distribute numerous copies of a document simply because we can. Because leaving someone out of the loop is one of the greatest sins of corporate culture, we compound our verbosity through compulsive correspondence. Try as we may to cover our butts, we're just clogging channels with complete crap.
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While today's office workers CC colleagues with a flood of email, few remember what the handy feature once stood for. CC harks back to the days before photocopiers, when secretaries created multiple documents by carbon copying. This tedious and exhausting process allowed no more than four duplicates to be made at a time, limiting most […]
