The typical worker checks their email 77 times and receives 121 new emails each day. While doing that, many are also toggling back and forth between applications, bouncing between pings on apps like Slack and Teams, comments on shared documents, and notifications from an array of company web portals.
Are Collaboration Tools Overwhelming Your Team?
Strategies to help your employees regain control over their work.
August 31, 2023
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Summary.
Today’s workers feel numbed by a fragmented, unpredictable, and overwhelming collection of collaboration tools — the very things advertised to boost their productivity. They know they’re overloaded and feel exhausted but believe there is little or nothing they can do to slow the onslaught of communication. The authors explored how collaboration technology bloat impacts employees and tried to help people take control over their work. They called their intervention the “collaboration cleanse.” Here are their findings, as well as strategies for leaders to simplify employees’ collaboration tool use.