Category: Digitalization

Fast com­mu­ni­ca­tion with e‑mail should sup­port the actu­al work. And being able to book a meet­ing quick­ly should also be a relief. In fact, how­ev­er, e‑mails and meet­ings unin­ten­tion­al­ly became the core work con­tent of many knowl­edge work­ers because their sim­plic­i­ty replaced and cor­rod­ed struc­tured workflows.

What do humans do when they do noth­ing? They think about their social life. So what hap­pens when all idle­ness is more and more clev­er­ly sup­pressed by the atten­tion econ­o­my and its apps on the smart­phone? About the anti­so­cial side effects of the unin­ter­rupt­ed dis­trac­tion through social media.

We did­n’t sign up for the dig­i­tal lives we now lead. Tech­nol­o­gy is seduc­ing us in a per­fid­i­ous way, hijack­ing our atten­tion. Cal New­port offers a counter-pro­pos­al with his phi­los­o­phy of “Dig­i­tal Minimalism”.

Despite the pre­scribed and advised spa­tial dis­tance, peo­ple move clos­er togeth­er and show more inter­est and under­stand­ing for each oth­er. If we could pre­serve this for the time after the Coro­na pan­dem­ic and do not imme­di­ate­ly fall back into old pat­terns, much would be gained.

Many orga­ni­za­tions strug­gle to deal in a pos­i­tive way with social media. Inter­nal­ly, a lot of the poten­tial of net­work­ing in an enter­prise social net­work is still untapped and externally,…