AMBIVALENZ DER UNGLEICHZEITIGKEIT

AMBIVALENCE OF NON-SIMILARITY

Our everyday reality has long distanced itself from a fixed chronology. This is evident in television consumption as well as in family communication. In order to "call" someone, you do not have to "reach" each other. Watching your favorite film on the television does not require you to be personally available at 8:15 p.m. The decoupling of social behavior from the time axis shapes leadership, communication in teams and also places of employment in everyday working life. "Working from anywhere" goes hand in hand with new forms of leadership and working methods. At the same time (pun intended), we experience the immediacy of email and mobile accessibility. Instead of getting the mail in the morning, incoming mail interrupts us during periods of concentration. In Germany, collaborative work is not only made difficult by legal frameworks. We present a selection of typical practical cases.

Interestingly, two opposing trends are converging in everyday working life. The switch from letters to emails has put us under constant pressure to respond. Questions need to be answered immediately. Long delays, perhaps even several days, are not tolerated. This leads to stress with the potential for errors, because arguments are often not calmly weighed up and people "just react" much more quickly. Without technical organization, concentrated work is made even more difficult. The many impulses and influences disrupt the natural flow of tasks and are often the cause of the powerlessness of the flood of work, which ultimately results in cardiovascular disease and burnout.

At the other end, despite mobile devices allowing unrestricted accessibility regardless of location, the trend towards the time-shifted use of different forms of communication is developing, perhaps as a balancing factor. This is a challenge for organisation and management in corporate cultures.

Typical practical cases:

Conclude employment contracts: Recruiting and contract conclusion are mostly prepared online. Be careful with digital contracts - new written form requirement! The amendment to the new Evidence Act obliges companies to hand over essential contract conditions in writing and signed (not digitally with a signature!) before or at the start of work. Tip: adag payroll services offers an optimal process for digital employment contracts and analogue proof requirements for many areas at https://www.digitalerarbeitsvertrag.de/

It has long been easier for many companies to develop specialists and managers from existing employees through qualification measures. The Xperts Network offers turnkey solutions and individual advice for the development of appropriate concepts at https://www.xperts-network.de/

Yoomind and Ensider are currently working on a pilot project for project-oriented organizational structures, such as classic film productions. Production managers access audits and reports across all productions, production managers monitor the instruction and contract documentation centrally via a dashboard, and employees find all information in video, audio and PDF in learning paths that are perfectly tailored to them. Pilot projects are currently still being accepted.

Microsoft Office also offers tips for working from home at https://pulse.microsoft.com/de-ch/work-productivity-de-ch/na/fa3-home-office-tipps/ . In general, it makes sense to create notification-free periods for concentrated work in all apps, regardless of this. With the right method, for example "Getting Things Done" by David Allen (more at https://gettingthingsdone.com/ ), you can create a productive work environment for yourself.

And the last tip at the end. "On-demand" is the keyword that best describes today's "non-simultaneity". Humans, as social creatures, love to laugh together. Collective experiences shape memories much more strongly and generate much stronger emotions. Therefore, the ultimate tip for a perfect balance: go to the cinema. You can feel it!

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(Author: Markus Vogelbacher)
(Image: Tumisu / Pixabay)

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