Meeting Horrors
Many employees across the globe are subjected to back-to-back meetings, without a chance to get a glass of water or a bio break. They endure those extra-exhausting meetings, thanks to the widely documented effects of meeting with our faces only, instead of our whole selves.
It’s not like we don’t have the tools to prevent it. Email, Google Docs, Slack, and Basecamp: These are the types of applications that make it easier for us to share ideas and information without being in the same room so that we can collaborate without necessarily working in the same place or even at the same time.
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