Editing Collaboration tool (section)

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The invention of email as a collaboration tool changed the way we used to communicate in the workplace. It is the easiest method to make contact within an organization and is well established. Especially for organizing daily correspondence, email can reach various people with just one click.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = The Impact of E-mail Communication on Organizational Life|last1 = Derks|first1 = Daantje|date = 2010|journal = Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace|publisher = Erasmus University Rotterdam|last2 = Bakker|first2 = Arnold B.}}</ref>

Although email is still the most common used tool in communication collaboration it is not very efficient on a big scale and other forms of communication seem to take over. Besides its flexibility it is not very good for group conversations as they grow too fast.{{cn|date=February 2019}} There is no way to be sure that a person has the latest version of a document that has been sent to them and it is impossible to always track via their email what tasks need to be done and by which deadline.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/09/collaboration-best-practices-3-reasons-email-hurts-productivity/|title = Collaboration Best Practices – 3 Reasons Why Email Hurts Your Productivity|date = September 2012|website = Atlassian Blog|publisher = Atlassian Ltd|last = Anderson|first = Ryan}}</ref> As Cisco states in their Cisco Blog about the "Future of Email", emails "will improve productivity by organizing your data for you" <ref>{{Cite web|url = http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/the_future_of_email|title = The Future of Email|date = September 2009|website = Cisco Blog|publisher = Cisco Systems Inc.|last = Aronson|first = Doron}}</ref> and try to bring more transparency in their work with email.