{"id":8643,"date":"2024-06-11T15:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recruitireland.com\/advice-centre\/?p=8643"},"modified":"2024-06-11T15:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:24:21","slug":"fewer-meetings-more-memos-the-future-of-asynchronous-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recruitireland.com\/advice-centre\/fewer-meetings-more-memos-the-future-of-asynchronous-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer meetings, more memos: the future of asynchronous work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph\">\u201cThis meeting could have been an email\u201d is a common workplace complaint. For some companies, it is now a guiding principle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">Since the pandemic cut ties to the office, more people are working when and where it suits them best, rather than the standard nine to five. This \u201casynchronous\u201d approach means colleagues overlap less and have to communicate in different ways to do their jobs effectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">That means fewer meetings \u2013 whether in person, hybrid or virtual \u2013 and more detailed memos, instructional videos and collaborative documents, as colleagues record their work in shared online workspaces that are available 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">\u201cIt\u2019s just about ensuring that when I sit down to work, I have the information I need to start,\u201d says Kyle Daigle, chief operating officer of GitHub, a Microsoft-owned developer platform. Many of the company\u2019s approximately 3,000 employees work asynchronously.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">Many professional workers are used to keeping slightly different hours to colleagues: they make it work by sending overnight emails, or creating handover documents so overseas colleagues can continue working on a project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">But in a fully \u2013 or almost fully \u2013 asynchronous workplace, employees have to embrace unfamiliar habits: resisting the temptation to call so many meetings; documenting their activity and decisions in detail for colleagues to see; and granting companywide access to their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">\u201cKnowledge is trapped in people\u2019s heads &#8230; What we\u2019ve had to do is adapt to sharing that knowledge without getting people together in meetings in real time,\u201d says Scott Farquhar, co-CEO of software company Atlassian, which has more than 11,000 employees working in 13 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">So far, tech firms have led the way in adopting asynchronous working patterns. That is partly because writing code lends itself to long periods of solitary focus, but also because asynchronous work depends heavily on online processes tech workers are familiar with already.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">Scoop, a hybrid technology company that monitors the work policies of almost 6,000 US-headquartered businesses as part of its \u201cFlex Index\u201d, says 32 per cent of those companies require no office time from their employees. These are predominantly working asynchronously, says Scoop chief executive Rob Sadow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">Several companies, such as Notion and Atlassian, have sprung up offering asynchronous tools, enabling colleagues to create internal reference materials, delegate tasks, monitor the progress of projects and collaborate on work at any time, wherever they are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">About 1,500 companies use Slite, a Paris-based document management platform that enables workers to create documents and quickly find information, says chief executive Christophe Pasquier. \u201cFor the vast majority of our users, it becomes an asynchronous work tool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">Slite allows users to sift through the large amount of data produced when staff document almost everything they do. \u201cWhen you have a real team that works really in async, especially the remote ones, it\u2019s shocking how much data there is,\u201d says Pasquier. \u201cThere is so much stuff that you can\u2019t find the stuff that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">In theory, asynchronous working patterns make it quicker for rank-and-file employees to collaborate without meetings or supervision: everyone works directly on projects in a shared workspace, that allows companies to have a thinner management layer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">\u201cEssentially, managers are just transmissions of information &#8230; all of that is accessible by everyone in the organisation all at the same time,\u201d explains Liam Martin, co-founder of employee monitoring company Time Doctor. He estimates that asynchronous companies tend to have about half as many managers. \u201cA lot of the classic things that managers were doing are essentially redundant inside of async [organisations].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">Yet a shift to this new form of working is not easy. When Martin supported some 20 firms to shift to asynchronous working during the pandemic \u201cit was a big failure\u201d. The flop, he says, was partly due to a lack of enthusiasm from executives and the fact that employees were reluctant to write up their work in detail. When they did, colleagues rarely read the notes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">\u201cIn one company, we identified that 98 per cent of the documents that were written out had not been accessed more than twice,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">Even the most strident advocates of asynchronous work acknowledge that some situations need a quick discussion. Working to different schedules \u201cdoesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t ever hop on a Zoom call\u201d, says Daigle, adding that innovation is still \u201cmuch easier\u201d when it involves personal communication or live meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">To build a team spirit and create more organic connections, many asynchronous organisations schedule video \u201ccoffee chats\u201d, or set aside time in calls to replicate the chit-chat of in-person meetings. Many also bring staff together for away days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1nhbny4-0 gVsmvl body-paragraph paywall\">\u201cOur belief on distributed work is not that you never need to get together,\u201d adds Atlassian\u2019s Farquhar. \u201cIt\u2019s that you don\u2019t need to sit next to someone in a cubicle every single day to build trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis meeting could have been an email\u201d is a common workplace complaint. For some companies, it is now a guiding principle. Since the pandemic cut ties to the office, more people are working when and where it suits them best, rather than the standard nine to five. 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