Anti-PowerPoint Party in Switzerland

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A political party in Switzerland wants to ban PowerPoint presentations. The Anti-PowerPoint Party says the software is costing the country US$2.5 billion every year.

It says PowerPoint is almost like a disease that has infected most Swiss companies. Party spokesman Matthias Poehm also says companies lose a lot of productivity because of PowerPoint. He calculated that workers have to listen to thousands of presentations every week and that 85 per cent of these are a waste of time for workers.

Mr Poehm says there is a great alternative to PowerPoint - the flipchart. He said this would get more workers focusing on what the presenter is talking about. He believes flipcharts encourage creativity and are three to five times more effective than PowerPoint slides. Poehm said: “We just want people to be aware of this issue and the alternative to it. The solutions are available, but nobody is using them.” PowerPoint maker Microsoft has not yet responded to the Anti-PowerPoint Party’s campaign.