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Without the use of asynchronous channels of communications (other than email), technical exhaustion will escalate to impact an even larger proportion of staff.

The complex set of tools that got us through the last two years of remote work is evolving into a digital workplace infrastructure. What does this mean for ROI?

To paraphrase Mark Twain: reports of excessive meeting attendance are greatly exaggerated.

Digital communication use is like one large dating app. And the workplace is being forced to find perfect matches everywhere.

You would be forgiven for thinking that Yammer had gone underground given the focus on Microsoft Teams and Viva. But Yammer is still very much in play.

Given appropriate controls, is there still a case for post on behalf of on an enterprise social networking platform?

The articles on workplace burnout suggest most of us are suffering from overload, leading to potential burnout. But practicing self-care isn't the solution.

The good news is our email usage is going down. The bad news? Chat is going up.

As well as our human biases, “system noise” can create as much, if not more errors in our decision-making. Remote work may have mitigated some of those effects.

Chat is designed for short, sharp communications. It is ephemeral, with no guarantee that it can be easily rediscovered in the context in which it was posted.

Highly effective teams work "in the flow," interacting and reciprocating at a high-level of intensity with their colleagues.

If collaboration is the foundation for employee experience, how do we know if it’s working or not?

A recent cleaning spree unearthed advice on how to use collaborative technologies — from 1999. And you know what? It still holds true.

A recent study of Yammer communities dispelled several previously held theories of how employees responded to the pandemic and working from home.

No organization is immune from a major market disruption. The larger an organization, the more prone it is to being blindsided.

Workers are experiencing a range of emotions during the extended working from home period. But is all stress built the same?

Many of us have a love-hate relationship with working from home. Here's how to make better use of our digital offices while cutting down on digital fatigue.

For any leader feeling sidelined by their now virtual teams: there's light at the end of the tunnel. But it requires acquiring new skills and adapting old ones.

Now that we've all settled into working from home, we need to place energy into the innovative activities required to adapt to the new normal of working.