Collaboration is great when it effectively and efficiently solves a problem -- but not so much when it exhausts your organization’s experts, which often leads to falling productivity and turnover.

But in a more general sense, collaborative overload is a phenomenon with which many of us are now familiar at some level. It's emails and text messages that arrive 24 hours a day, the barrage of ...

There’s no doubt that teamwork and collaboration—when done right—can make a huge difference in people’s individual and collective effectiveness. But there’s a flip side. Teamwork and collaboration, ...

Here's a common scenario: After a long day at work, you come home and realize you didn't get anything done. By the end of the week, the list of tasks on your to-do list has grown and you can't explain ...

Rob Cross, professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, explains how work became an exhausting marathon of group projects. He’s the coauthor... Rob Cross, professor at the ...

According to a 2018 study conducted by Forrester Consulting, 35 percent of enterprise projects fail to meet their original business intent. Today’s business environment calls for a different approach ...

Welcome to the Workspace Connect Wrap, our regular round-up of news in the new workplace. In today's edition: Citrix reports on the high-priority workers give flexible workplace policies, and ...

The collaboration tool Slack now counts eight million daily users, whilst Microsoft’s Team chat app is used in over 200,000 organisations. Popular as such tools are, do they really improve ...