The “Congestion Pricing” Model Of Office Communications

It could never work, but it also needs to work.

I got the basic idea from the bottom of this post:

Reliant on our Imaginations

Basically, let’s say you’re on a team, right? Whenever you jam up the comms part of that team — by creating a meaningless Slack thread or adding more people to an email or whatever — you have to pay some type of price. There are some organizations that do this with meetings. If you “rehash” a previous topic or idea in a meeting, you pay $1 into a jar, and at the end of the month, that jar becomes a team happy hour or something.

Save Meetings (Please): The “No-Rehash Rule”

I don’t know exactly how team members could be punished for ineffective or clogged communications, but I suppose there is some way. Maybe the $1 concept too (I’m sure some employees would agree to this, but then get laid off…