This article looks at some interesting research that Microsoft has done on remote work. Some of the findings I found interesting, were that "brainwave markers associated with overwork and stress are significantly higher in video meetings than non-meeting work like writing emails." These high levels of fatigue and stress, tend to set around 30-40 minutes into a meeting. In order to help decrease these levels of fatigue, they recommend to take regular breaks every two hours to let your brain re-charge, limiting meetings to 30 minutes, or having long meetings with small breaks whenever possible. Additionally, their "together mode" feature showed to create less of a challenge for the brain compared to regular grid modes (their might be bias in this).
A positive from remote work that they highlight is increased levels of inclusion. This was also highlighted in CollegeVille's Virtual Conference. The article states that "over half (52%) of people we surveyed feel more valued or included as a remote contributor in meetings because everyone is now in the same virtual room". These levels of inclusion brings more diverse people to the table as well, who bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and solutions. Along with an increase of resources for remote members. Their were a lot of interesting findings in this article from Microsoft.
This article looks at some interesting research that Microsoft has done on remote work. Some of the findings I found interesting, were that "brainwave markers associated with overwork and stress are significantly higher in video meetings than non-meeting work like writing emails." These high levels of fatigue and stress, tend to set around 30-40 minutes into a meeting. In order to help decrease these levels of fatigue, they recommend to take regular breaks every two hours to let your brain re-charge, limiting meetings to 30 minutes, or having long meetings with small breaks whenever possible. Additionally, their "together mode" feature showed to create less of a challenge for the brain compared to regular grid modes (their might be bias in this).
A positive from remote work that they highlight is increased levels of inclusion. This was also highlighted in CollegeVille's Virtual Conference. The article states that "over half (52%) of people we surveyed feel more valued or included as a remote contributor in meetings because everyone is now in the same virtual room". These levels of inclusion brings more diverse people to the table as well, who bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and solutions. Along with an increase of resources for remote members. Their were a lot of interesting findings in this article from Microsoft.