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To: Audience; Subject: No e-mail Fridays

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KAI RYSSDAL: Should you happen to know someone who works at Intel, don't take offense if they didn't answer your e-mail today -- this was the first of the company's new Zero E-Mail Fridays.

Workers are discouraged from sending digital correspondance. Instead, they're supposed to take some time and actually -- get this -- talk to each other. As in face-to-face.

Other companies have similar policies. We don't. But the Marketplace Players think it might take some workers a while to adapt...

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Rico Gagliano co-hosts and co-produces Marketplace’s “Small Talk” segment.