The unexpected reason firms should institute policies to remove email signatures: Quantifying human mortality costs of email signature-based reputation signaling

It has become fashionable in some corporate and academic circles to reputation signal by amending pronouns and/or land acknowledgements to email signatures. Extra information exchange, however, has environmental and social impacts including human mortality from climate destabilization. To illustrate...

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Published in:	Sustainable Futures
Main Author:	Joshua M. Pearce
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2025-06-01
Subjects:	Mortality Environmental impact Email Reputation signaling Digital communication ICT
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188825000863