Collaboration Software

Matthew Finegan writes about how collaboration software companies are letting users try their offerings without charge during the coronavirus pandemic

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Team Behavior

Charles Duhigg reports on Google's efforts to identify characteristics of the best work teams .

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Escape Room Game

Matt Alderton suggests that visiting an escape room is a fun team-building activity.

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Collaboration and Overload

Sharon Florentine reports that 20-30% of team productivity is due to less than five percent of employees. A lot of employees do not want to be part of teams, and bad team experiences cause that feeling to take hold during many employee's work life.

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Team Communication

Kim Scott promotes the use of radical candor to make teams productive.

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Optimum Workplace Size

Bob Sutton argues that four team members is optimal for working teams.

In a similar vein, W. L. Gore and Associates limits the size of its installations to 200 or less employees in order to cultivate employee loyalty to their co-workers and company.

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Workplace Cohesion

Matt Palmquist reports on research conducted by Sean Wise which shows that there can be productivity problems when there are high levels of workplace socialization .

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MOOCs and Teamwork

Amy Choi explores Harvard University's plan to add student teams to MOOC learning in the hope of bolstering engagement and completion statistics.

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