Welcome To App Sprawl

Too much crap you need to check is a good example of “more is less,” and we need to design work for “less is more.”

Decent new-ish article here:

Why employers need to fine-tune their collaboration, productivity tech stacks

Within there:

But it’s easy to get trapped in app sprawl. The average employee switches between over 35 job-critical apps over 1,100 times daily, according to workflow automation company Pega.

The “app sprawl” thing is very real. I have written about this a couple of times, including this ditty that performed pretty well:

The Problem With Digital Is That It’s Contextualized As “More Shit To Manage”

I’ve had a few jobs where there are 30+ “critical” apps you need to access in a given day, from Asana to Slack to Google Docs…