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FTA: "By combining sentiment data with de-identified calendar and email metadata, we found that those with the best of both worlds had five fewer hours in thei
by pjmorris 4y ago
FTA:
"By combining sentiment data with de-identified calendar and email metadata, we found that those with the best of both worlds had five fewer hours in their workweek span, five fewer collaboration hours, three more focus hours, and 17 fewer employees in their internal network size."
- lucb1e 4y agoTL;DR^, came here to post the same quote (they are citing the original authors here). The rest of the article is filler and speculation based on this statement.
- dredmorbius 4y agoIt would be awfully useful to know what the baseline from which the 5 & 17 fewer reductions are based on.
- markmark 4y agoSo if they are looking at calendar data does "five fewer collaboration hours" only mean five fewer hours in meetings? Some of the funnest and most productive work I've done was a project with three others where we were all in a single office. We were completely ad-hoc with working alone, pair programming, having quick design discussions, whatever was needed at the time. There was an enormous amount of collaboration (and an enormous amount of deep, solo work), but there were no meetings in my calendar. Meanwhile in pretty much any job I have had my happiness has gone down the more full my official calendar becomes.