E-mail preferred to in-person meetings.

• Position: Business & Finance - Brief Article

In today's fast-paced corporate world, who has time to convene in person when you can hit "send"? A clear majority of executives polled by Accountemps, a Menlo Park, Calif., temporary staffing service of accounting, finance, and bookkeeping professionals, found 92% of respondents say managers often send an e-mail message rather than meet one-on-one.

"For busy managers, e-mail is the next best thing to meeting in person," observes Max Messmer, chairman of Accountemps and author of Managing Your Career For Dummies. While this form of communication is efficient, however, Messmer cautions against using it exclusively "Face-to-face meetings reduce the potential for...