How to avoid collaboration overload

Are you feeling the effects of collaboration overload?

If you are, you’re not alone. As collaboration becomes a strategic initiative for businesses looking to increase productivity and cross-functional capability within the workforce, there's a much greater risk that your best employees are going to burn out.

According to a recent Harvard Business Review report that gauged responses from more than 300 organizations, many times the proportion of time workers spend in meetings, responding to requests for help and working in various collaboration and team-focused applications hovers around 80 percent. That leaves little time for all the critical work employees must complete on their own. In fact, according to the report, "performance suffers as they are buried under an avalanche of requests for input or advice, access to resources or attendance at a meeting. They take assignments home, and soon, according to a large body of evidence on stress, burnout and turnover become real risks," according to the research.

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