This month, Coca-Cola, the largest beverage company in the world, announced that they have discontinued the voicemail phone service at their office headquarters and Technology Plaza in Atlanta.

Coca-Cola, the largest beverage company in the world, has discontinued the voicemail phone service at its headquarters in Atlanta.

Instead of hearing a voicemail message, callers are directed to call again later, or utilize an ‘alternative method’ to reach their desired party.

Even though getting rid of voicemail will only save the multi-billion dollar corporation around a hundred thousand dollars a year, employees will save time by streamlining their communication.

Since corporate employees use computers and increasingly smartphones to do business, emails and text messages are much more efficient than making phone calls and leaving voicemail messages.

Coca-Cola said they allowed certain employees to keep it if they considered voicemail to be important for business, but only six percent chose to hold onto their voicemail boxes.

According to AT&T, more companies are combining their telephone, email, and text messages into one unified system.

According to a researcher from MIT, employees under the age of 35 rarely use voicemail service, and even older workers don’t check the messages consistently enough to make it an effective part of their workflow.