工作上过多的的协作/行政活动可能会伤害你的工作效率

原文链接：https://www.fastcompany.com/90710099/your-helpfulness-at-work-is-hurting-your-job-performance

扇贝链接：https://www.shanbay.com/news/articles/glyhg

指过多的邮件、会议等会分散人的精力导致工作效率降低。

本文选自fastcompany网站；作者BY JENNIFER SMITH。
Jennifer Smith is CEO and cofounder of Scribe, an app that automatically generates step-by-step how-to guides for any task. Smith, a Princeton and Harvard Business School alum, was previously a technology investor and adviser at McKinsey and Greylock Partners.

【感想】
Studies have shown that when we are interrupted — whether it's for 30 seconds to read an email or for an hour-long meeting — it can take up to 20 minutes to refocus on the task we were working on.
哇这个很酷啊，以前也听过不过很容易就忽视了这方面

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Here are a few more tactics for safeguarding your productivity and creativity:

【Time blocking这个之前扇贝也有个短文】Block off time on your calendar for focused work so it’s visible to your co-workers, and resist responding to non-urgent messages during those hours.
【Agenda setting】For every meeting you call, make sure the agenda is clear, and tell your attendees that you have a hard stop at the end. (If you’re not running the meeting, ask the person who is for an agenda to help everyone stay on topic.)
【Standing meetings】 Schedule regular, dedicated standing meetings with your colleagues and other project stakeholders. Encourage everyone to hold their questions or problems for this designated time in order to reduce interruptions during the rest of the workweek.
【Boundaries】 Be clear with managers and team members about when your working hours start and end — and stick to them as much as possible to protect your personal resources.
If you don’t feel comfortable doing these things— or saying “no” to collaborative activities—that indicates a problem that needs to be addressed at a higher level. If you’re feeling the effects of collaboration overload, some of your colleagues probably are, too. Talk to your manager—or even HR—about investing in knowledge-sharing tools. Build in time for deep work. It can be challenging for those of us who were taught to value the hustle to recognize that thinking is working—but that’s when the magic happens

Chris Savage, cofounder and CEO of video hosting platform Wistia, discussed this in his must-read blog post, “Thinking is Work. Give Yourself Time to Do It.

In the early days of the company, Savage viewed his then-empty calendar with hesitation. “I dreamed that someday my calendar would be full of important things to do.”

However he now credits much of the company’s growth to that blank space. With all that free time, he writes, “we did figure out how to build a product, find customers, market ourselves, build a culture, and do all the other things you need to do to create a business.”

“It’s hard to see open-ended thinking as work because so much of it doesn’t result in concrete changes and progress,” says Savage, whose company has half a million customers. “And yet, the most important and influential ideas come from open-ended thinking.”