$4Coca-Cola says goodbye to voicemail.Coca-Cola has declared voicemail obsolete.
The world's largest soft drink company disconnected the voicemail feature on landline phones at its Atlanta headquarters last month, $4.
The decision to kill voicemail was made "to simplify the way we work and increase productivity," according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg's Duane D. Stanford.
Coca-Cola now considers texting and emailing more efficient means of communication than voicemail, which requires recipients to manually click through recorded messages on a phone and listen to them, transcribe important information, and delete them.
Many employees were upset about the change, which will save the company about $100,000.
"People north of 40 are schizophrenic about voicemail," Michael Schrage, a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management's Center for Digital Business, told Stanford. "People under 35 scarcely ever use it."