Enabling knowledge & info to be shared is essential for organisational alignment

tech.hindustantimes.com:

A major differentiator in any competitive market is when businesses understand the value of sharing knowledge and resources, empowering their employees with the wealth of information available to them, thereby creating that critical alignment within the organisation.

However, according to a recent study by Slack, The Reinvention of Work, the lack of quick and easy access to files is a major frustration for 7 in 10 Indian knowledge workers (71%). And Indian organisations are missing out on maximising the impact of their work by not providing easy access to shared knowledge and valuable resources that exist within the walls of the organisation. The underutilisation of shared resources, ideas and data is a massive problem — especially with a dispersed workforce that’s trying to figure out how to collaborate effectively while working remotely.

What’s contributing to the problem is the lack of a central platform to bring all essential apps together. Time that could be better spent on high-value work, like building relationships with new customers, is wasted switching between different apps for communication, collaboration, file storage, document sharing and more.

According to the Slack study — which was based on a survey of 2,000 Indian knowledge workers in companies with over 100 employees — respondents, on average, were found to be wasting around 10 hours a week moving between the different apps they used for work. Alarmingly, this adds up to nearly 10 working weeks of lost productivity a year.

Just imagine a workplace where everyone is wasting 10 weeks of productivity per year — just moving back and forth between apps to find the right information, messages and files. Across a whole company, that’s an enormous and very