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Collaborate, but only intermittently, says new study: The march toward always-on technology may hinder groups' ability to solve complex problems

Published on Aug 15, 2018

More than a decade after the introduction of the first smartphone, we are now awash in always-on technologies -- email, IM, social media, Slack, Yammer, and so on. All that connectivity means we are constantly sharing our ideas, knowledge, thinking, and answers. Surely that "wisdom of the crowd" is good for problem solving at work, right?