[teampractices] Some recent articles about the benefits and costs of collaboration
Grace Gellerman
ggellerman at wikimedia.org
Mon May 9 22:43:39 UTC 2016
Thanks, Joel!
Some TL'DRs for the ones I sent:
- the subtitle of the group chat one says it all: "Group chat is like
being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda."
- the Economist article talks about how open office plans tax
concentration, context switches make tasks take longer to complete,
"collaboration
is much easier to measure than “deep work,” and the cost that "Many
employees are spending so much time interacting that they" have little time
do work
- the HBR one distinguishes 3 types of collaborative resources:
- informational - knowledge & skills
- social - awareness, access to network of people
- personal - one's time and energy, also usually default demand in
collaboration
- a person's time is finite and demands on it when others want
high bandwidth interactions can lead to burnout, or one being
in demand but
disengaged
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Joel Aufrecht <jaufrecht at wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> These articles are all very interesting. Let me offer a summary
> paraphrase of Nick's links in the hopes that someone will do the same for
> Grace's:
>
> "Slack has very well designed interface that makes it pleasing to use, but
> that, in combination with its underlying conceptual model, encourage
> constant but lower-quality communication, "*asynchronish*", and is an
> obstacle to solving deeper communication problems such as focus and
> institutional memory."
>
>
>
>
> *-- Joel Aufrecht*
> Team Practices Group
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <
> nwilson at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> and a couple more, slack-specific:
>>
>> https://blog.agilebits.com/2016/04/19/curing-our-slack-addiction/
>>
>> http://qz.com/632016/why-im-breaking-up-with-slack/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Grace Gellerman <
>> ggellerman at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> A spectrum of opinions on the benefits and costs of modern workplace
>>> collaboration:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://hbr.org/2016/01/collaborative-overload?utm_campaign=harvardbiz&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688872-fashion-making-employees-collaborate-has-gone-too-far-collaboration-curse
>>>
>>>
>>> https://m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat-744659addf7d#.u8yqelwiy
>>>
>>>
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