You appreciate how important phones are to your company’s operations, but the amount of conversational chatter in your work area has gotten so bad that it’s hard to concentrate on your work. You desperately need at least a few quiet hours every day to engage in the analytical thinking your job requires. Write an e-mail message to the division vice president, Jeri Ross, asking her to designate one of the conference rooms as a quiet-zone work room. It would have WIFI so that employees can stay connected to the corporate network, but it would not have any phone service, either landline or mobile (using a mobile signal jammer). Additional conversation of any kind would be forbidden. Make up any details you need, and make sure you create an effective subject line.