My Top Tips for Avoiding Collaboration Overload

Yes, collaboration overload is a thing and it’s severely impacting our productivity.

Katlyn Gallo
9 min readFeb 3, 2022
Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash

Collaboration overload is a relatively new phenomenon that’s become more prevalent in the era of remote work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s defined as:

“the point where individuals spend so much time assisting their colleagues or engaging in collaborative activities that they are not left with enough time to complete their tasks.” — NTask

Publications like Harvard Business Review and McKinsey are saying it’s sinking productivity and leading to increased stress levels and burnout in employees.

Anyone that has a desk job is probably already thinking about all the collaboration tools they use from day to day:

  • Email
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Slack
  • Webex
  • Zoom

While email has been around for a while, video conferencing and instant messaging apps have increased in popularity over the last decade as a way to make collaboration easier amongst employees in different geo-locations.

Then, when the pandemic happened, it became the only way to keep in touch with colleagues we used to…

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Katlyn Gallo
Katlyn Gallo

Written by Katlyn Gallo

Coffee lover, bookworm, and InfoSec enthusiast | Find me on Twitter & Instagram: @ktgblogstech

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