Saves on travel costs e.g. conference calls over face-to-face meetings· Saves time with reduced travel, good for working efficiency and work-life balance· Brings groups of people together from all over the world who could not normally communicate· Allows you (email) to manage your time and communicate what you want to when you want to rather than having someone drop into the office and interrupt you· Enables (email again) higher quality communication with all the facts clearly presented in black and white without emotion in an email - at least potentially· Increase communication flow and supports social networking and knowledge management in organisations e.g. company blogs and wikis · Reduces wasted time (people tend to digress and interrupt less in telephone conferences) in meetings