Periagoge
Scenario

When workplace focus initiatives create communication anxiety

Our team has agreed to 'focus blocks' with no Slack but people keep sending 'urgent' messages anyway and now we're in this weird space where half of us ignore the blocks and half of us feel anxious about missing something. I don't know if we're protecting deep work or just creating more stress about communication.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group discovers that protecting attention requires renegotiating what urgency actually means.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The attention economy examined?”

Peri

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