E-mail, Internet remain top US workplace tools: study

Washington

AMERICANS see e-mail and the Internet as the most important tools for productivity at work, and still prefer landlines over cellphones for the office, a study showed on Tuesday.

The Pew Research Center found that 61 per cent of those surveyed cited e-mail as "very important" for their jobs, and 54 per cent said the same for the Internet. The figures were even higher for office-based workers.