Myriam HadnesFounder and CEO, workshops.work · Behavioural Economist | workshops.work | Host of the Unprofessionalism & workshops work Podcasts

How to Achieve more Collaboration through Fewer Emails? #shorts

21 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker argues that email is a poor tool for collaboration because it creates endless back‑and‑forth cycles that drain energy and hinder timely communication. To counter this, they propose a "magic" rule: do not reply to any email within 24 hours. This enforced delay forces urgent matters to be moved to faster channels such as phone calls or Slack, encouraging more direct and efficient collaboration. The speaker invites viewers to share their thoughts on how such a delay might impact teamwork.

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There are clearly some tools that facilitate collaboration, others that don't. Emails don't facilitate collaboration. They suck all the energy out of us. And the problem is, the more emails we send, the more emails we receive, and then it becomes a rabbit hole and we don't communicate. What if there was a rule, I was thinking, that you cannot answer to an email Faster than 24 hours. So there's kind of a magic delay. This means that everything that has to be discussed quickly, then we have to find different ways of communicating. Maybe a phone call, maybe a Slack message. I wonder what would happen if we had this kind of magic email delay. Let me know what you think.