About 150 engineers at Intel are kicking off “Zero E-mail Fridays” today, encouraging coworkers to forgo e-mail communication in favor of the telephone or face-to-face meetings. U.S. Cellular and a few other firms have already instituted e-mail-free Fridays. White-collar workers get about 140 e-mails a day. (USA Today)
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