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The Future of Work & Online Events
Working from anywhere must include community and connection - in person and online.
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The Future of Work & Events
Digital Work Is Fractured
- On average, executives check their
- Phone: 2,617 times a day
- Email: 74 times a day
- Notifications: 46 time a day
- Switching apps tanks productivity
- 21% become less efficient at their job
- 19% report reduced attention to task
- 17% admit they work longer hours
- Frequent task switching adds up to a 40% loss in productivity
- Each interruption it can takes 23 minutes to regain focus
- Remote Meetings Waste Time
- 77% of remote workers use video conferencing software - Up from 48% in 2020
- Time spent in video meetings has risen 8-10% each year since 2000
- 83% of employees spend up to a third of their work week in video meetings
- 71% waste time every week due to unnecessary or canceled meetings
- 55% have more meetings now than they did in person
- 35% participate in virtual meetings multiple times a week
- 17% participate in virtual meeting multiple times a day
- Almost half of employees feel meetings frequently waste their time
- 56% want to spend less time on video calls in general
- 42% contribute nothing in meetings
- 40% waste up to 30 minutes searching for the right link
- 31 hours are spent in unproductive meetings monthly
- Waiting for meetings to start costs nearly 11 minutes per meeting - or more than 3 days per year
- Senior executives costs are greater: 16 minutes per meeting (nearly 6 days per year)
The Cost Of Remote Work Fatigue
- In 2022, 23% of American remote workers say their zoom fatigue is higher than it's ever been
- Remote workers say the top contributors to digital fatigue include:
- Meetings running too long: 56%
- Staring at a screen for long periods: 52%
- Meetings serve no purpose: 49%
- Seeing yourself on video all the time: 38%
- Constant eye contact: 35%
- 49% say that being on camera makes them more exhausted
- 14% more women experience Zoom fatigue than men
- Why Is Digital Interaction More Stressful?
- Personal Space
- Faces seem larger on video which makes them feel too close
- Exaggerates eye contact, making you feel like the focus of everyone's attention
- Mirror Effect
- Presenting you with a constant image of yourself increases self-awareness and anxiety
- Mistakes and miscommunications appear to never be forgotten
- Reduced Mobility
- In-person and phone conversations allow you to move and walk around which helps improve cognition
- Remote conferencing forces you to stay at your desk, on camera
- Nonverbal Communication
- Trying to decipher tone and other cues is difficult, adding stress and increasing misunderstandings
- Requires participants to exaggerate your natural gestures and reactions, which can be misunderstood
Building An Office For Remote Workers
- 78% of remote employees want to continue working from home for the rest of their career
- Of remote employees:
- 49% miss seeing their colleagues
- 44% miss personal interactions with colleagues
- 26% miss in-person meetings
- 14% miss water cooler chats
- 14% miss the office environment
- RedRex: Location-Based Meetings For Digital Work
- Designed for use by Web3 communities, online event providers, and startups
- Buildings: Every digital building on RedRex has a street address in the physical world - owned in the form of an NFT
- Floors: Each building is comprised of floors with customizable layout and user permissions
- Rooms: Owned by individuals or shared - owners and admins can close and open doors, users can “knock” on closed doors
- ○ Each room has various functionalities
- Voice, video and text chats / share rich media in each room
- Choice of Web3 Wallet / email login
- Security access badges available at every level
A single place to create, manage and host online events
The future of work needs to adapt. Working from anywhere must include community and connection - in person and online.
Sources
https://www.hrdive.com/news/notification-fatigue-productivity-asana/623419/
https://hbr.org/2019/03/stop-letting-push-notifications-ruin-your-productivity
https://district-tech.com/the-office-what-employees-miss-and-what-they-dont/
https://news.stanford.edu/2021/02/23/four-causes-zoom-fatigue-solutions/
https://smallbiztrends.com/2020/09/flexjobs-survey-employees-miss-working-in-office.html