Those two abbreviations served the exact same functions then as they do now - people who were cc’d got a copy of the letter, while those who were bcc’d got a copy but were unable to see a list of the other recipients.Ĭarbon paper was invented in the 1800s. How many people in today’s workforce know what CC on an email stands for? What about BCC? Those two abbreviations, which stand for carbon copy and blind carbon copy respectively, come from the days when business letters were typed on typewriters using carbon paper to create copies. Our business practices, when it comes to internal communications, are old. And, as the workforce gets younger, fewer and fewer employees will be reading those mass emails. Our world outside of work has sped up but in work? We’re still doing things the old way,Īnd that’s a problem: employees used to messaging won’t find mass emails engaging. But still, there's a gap between the way we communicate at work and the way we communicate in real world.Īt work, our internal communications look a lot like they did 10, 15, even 20 years ago - everyone was bcc’d on a mass email.
With this user friendly technology it has become very easy and convenient for a person to talk. The ever changing ways of communication has given a direction to the discovery of various digital platforms. Communication is a very important aspect in our day to day life to perform every action and for all social needs.
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