How Did Work Communication Become Such a Sh*t Show?

Coworkers using AI to respond to emails written using AI. Coworkers who put the entire email, in caps, in the subject line. Other coworkers who seemingly refuse to use their email at all. Coworkers who send you a Teams Chat, then an email, then a text, then call you on your personal phone. Organization-wide freakouts about moving from Slack to Teams. What made contemporary workplace communication into such a sh*t show — and what can we do about it? Amy Gallo joins us to answer all your questions about annoying, bewildering, and time-sucking coworker comms, and to give some provocative takes on which generation is actually the worst at email.

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Show Notes:

• Find out more about Amy Gallo and her work here
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• Buy Amy's bestselling book Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) here

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