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The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down - The New York Times

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We’ve been given no shortage of digital tools that should, in theory, help us work better, with more focus and efficiency, and connect us more easily with our colleagues. Instead, email, instant messaging, remote-meeting apps, work-flow and project-management software and so on can feel like so many buckets with holes in the bottom, maddeningly inadequate to the task of keeping us from drowning in work. It’s clear that something in the great digital-workplace experiment has gone wrong. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that it’s still too early to expect that we would have figured out how to make things go right. “We’re working now with disruptive new technologies that only emerged in the late ’90s,” says Cal Newport, a Georgetown computer-science professor and the best-selling author of “Deep Work,” “A World Without Email” and “Digital Minimalism.” (He’s currently writing a book about what he calls “slow productivity.”) “The idea that we immediately figured out the best way to use th

We’ve been given no shortage of digital tools that should, in theory, help us work better, with more focus and efficiency, and connect us more easily with our colleagues. Instead, email, instant messaging, remote-meeting apps, work-flow and project-management software and so on can feel like so many buckets with holes in the bottom, maddeningly inadequate to the task of keeping us from drowning in work. It’s clear that something in the great digital-workplace experiment has gone wrong. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that it’s still too early to expect that we would have figured out how to

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