Comment by dshacker
3 days ago
Even with this, there were many surprised people. I'm still amazed at all of the people that can ignore everything and just open their IDE and code (and maybe never see teams or email)
3 days ago
Even with this, there were many surprised people. I'm still amazed at all of the people that can ignore everything and just open their IDE and code (and maybe never see teams or email)
Alternatively, communications fatigue. How many emails does the average employee get with nonsense that doesn't apply to them? Oh cool, we have a new VP. Oh cool, that department had a charity drive. Oh cool, system I've never heard of is getting replaced by a new one, favourite of this guy I've never heard of.
Add in the various spam (be it attacks or just random vendors trying to sell something).
At some point, people start to zone out and barely skim, if that, most of their work emails. Same with work chats, which are also more prone to people sharing random memes or photos from their picnic last week or their latest lego set.
Everybody gets important emails, and it's literally part of their job to filter the wheat from the chaff. One of my benchmarks for someone's competency is their ability to manage information. With a combination of email filters and mental discipline, even the most busy inbox can be manageable. But this is an acquired skill, akin to not getting lost in social media, and some people are far better at it than others.
If the same internal sender sends both irrelevant and important messages, it'll be pretty hard or impossible to filter.
My #1 method of keeping my inbox clean, is unsubscribing from newsletters.
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If you read all the notifications you'll never do your actual job. People who just open their IDE and code are to be commended in some respects - but it's a balance of course.
In my previous company it came to me as a surprise to learn from a third party that our office had moved lol.