Cal Newport Recommends Replacing the Endless Pinging with Office Hours
In 2016, Cal Newport published an article on the Harvard Business Review’s website that used a purposefully provocative title, “A Modest Proposal: Eliminate Email.”
This is a well-articulated follow-up. Email can be such a productivity suck. In the teams I am involved with, we are increasingly insisting that project communication, idea capture, agenda building, and resource sharing are moved to an app designed to capture, hold and share such thinking, apps like Slack and the chat function of Zoom.
But the idea of 'office hours' has merit as we learn to learn with each other.
Article: When It Comes to Email, Corporate America Should Emulate Academia