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3 Tortious Communication Problems Killing Remote Teams Sanity
Ironically, the tools designed to bring us closer in a virtual world are pushing team members more into silos and frustration.
When the pandemic turned the world upside down in 2020, I jumped on the hybrid work model bandwagon. The idea? Leverage technology to keep an international team connected and productive.
Fast forward, and what did we get?
It became a chaotic circus of notifications, messages, and technology-induced passive-aggressiveness.
Remote work has been a powerful tactic, but as we added more technology, it created a monumental communication bottleneck.
People didn’t understand how to communicate effectively through writing. Burnout spread as people navigated our software stack.
The tools we brought to solve our problems created another set of problems.
