When we’re committed to synchronous work, the volume of distractions from IMs, slack messages, Zoom meetings, and a barrage of email mean that knowledge workers rarely have the time to have focused head down time – the time that you deliver high-value work.
This pre-pandemic article highlights the impact that online collaboration tools have on knowledge workers ability to get focused work done. I can only imagine that things have accelerated since hybrid.
Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Picsart, published this piece in Inc. Magazine that provides some research-backed tips on successfully working acync.
Busse highlights burnout, toxic productivity and the need for validation as some of the new stresses that have emerged from hybrid workplaces.
Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Picsart, published this piece in Inc. Magazine that provides some research-backed tips on successfully working acync.
First, documentation. To be a successful async organization, team members need to be able to find the relevant project information without being online at the same time as a colleague.
Quatalog, a connected work software company and Gitlab a DevOps solution provider partnered on a research report called Killing Time at Work.
The research surveyed 1,000 people in the US and another 1,000 in the UK to get a better idea of the challenges faced by modern knowledge workers.
WeWork’s Director of Real Estate, Nicholas Shiya, gives an introduction to asynchronous work and an overview of the benefits.
In this blog post, Shiya uses the async analogy a 4×100 relay race where all team members are doing their most high-value work when they have the baton creating an opportunity for more sustained productivity.