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Tactic: Support focus and location awareness in work

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic
Type: Software Practice
Category: socially-centered-practices
Tags: management 

Title

Support focus and location awareness in work

Description

Be aware of the nature of your activity when selecting your work location to optimize for task efficiency and effectiveness. Choosing a location aligned with the task at hand enables individuals to complete their work with minimal time, distraction, and digital resource usage. This includes recognizing whether an activity requires deep focus, collaboration, or flexibility, and adjusting the environment accordingly.

Participant

Hybrid employees

Related software artifact

< unknown >

Context

Flexible Work

Software feature

< unknown >

Tactic intent

To improve quality of work and task efficiency by matching location and environment with the specific demands of the activity. This allows employees to get work done faster and with fewer digital resources by avoiding unnecessary or mismatched setups

Target quality attribute

Quality of work

Other related quality attributes

Digital footprint

Measured impact

< unknown >

Source

Maël Madon, Patricia Lago (2023) “We are Always on, is That Really Necessary?” Exploring the Path to Digital Sufficiency in Flexible Work (DOI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10292170)


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  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

The Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics (AADT) is an initiative of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC). It received funding from the VU Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, and is maintained by the S2 Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Initial development of the Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics by Robin van der Wiel