[teampractices] Some recent articles about the benefits and costs of collaboration

[Grace Gellerman]

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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