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How to address performative availability culture in remote teams

Our remote team has created this culture where everyone responds to messages immediately to prove they're working and it's exhausting but no one wants to be the first to slow down. We're all competing to seem most available instead of most thoughtful and I think it's making our actual work worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group trapped in the theater of constant responsiveness at the expense of genuine productivity.

Ideas that help explain it
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