Employee disengagement and burnoutĪccording to The Anatomy of Work Index, more than one-third of workers feel overwhelmed by the persistent ping of notifications. Plus, each of those apps comes with its own set of notifications that make it more challenging to focus on a single task. When we’re using too many apps at work, we can find ourselves spending more time toggling between windows than actually getting our work done.Īccording to a Ring Central survey, employees waste about an hour each day switching between different apps. You can blame context switching, or the tendency to shift between one task to an unrelated task, for that lack of productivity. Reduced productivity and wasted timeĭo you have days where you work on many different tasks but don’t actually complete anything on your to-do list? The next time the team regroups, the designer is confused about why the stakeholder isn’t happy with their work and frustrated they didn’t have the correct information. However, the designer on your team is checking their email for updates and misses the message in Teams. Let’s say you’re working on a design project, and a stakeholder shares a critical change to the specifications in a Teams chat. It can be even more complicated when teams or departments within a company use different apps to share information. When information becomes scattered across multiple apps, it’s easier for people to receive conflicting information or even miss an important message altogether. Too many apps can cause misunderstandings or create confusion within your company, primarily when employees use multiple tools that serve similar functions.

While there are obvious financial costs associated with workplace technology, not finding the right balance of tools can impact your organization beyond budgets. The cost of using too many apps for communication and collaboration at work What tools and apps employees can’t go without.The true cost of tech fatigue in your organization.Even with workers having dozens of apps at their fingertips each day, when we asked Snagit customers what their “desert island” workplace tools are, a few apps rose to the top across various industries and roles.

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