The days of strict “top down” management may soon be a thing of the past.

Collaboration is nearly always considered a good thing in any professional setting.

The project tracker software company Asana recently released an entire report on this subject, surveying nearly 10K global workers to deduce that companies considered to have a “collaborative culture” are more profitable and better able to stay agile in the face of challenges.

On the other hand, according to the very same survey, people agree that 3.6 hours are lost per week to unnecessary meetings — which is one of the main ways people collaborate.

Companies are also using a ton of apps (according to an Okta survey, large companies use on average 211 apps, I read recently), and a lot of these apps are specifically used for collaboration.

How to simplify and save time without losing the ability to collaborate? That is the question that companies have to ask themselves. Not surprisingly, most professionals are interested in working at companies that have true collaborative cultures. I guess the Big Question is – when the rubber meets the road – how do we find that balance?

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