Velocity EngineExecution Game
Asynchronous Work
meeting-first→focus-first
The Goal
Protect deep work time by reducing reliance on real-time meetings.
Ideal For
Remote and hybrid teams suffering from "meeting fatigue."
The Shift
From meeting-first to focus-first.
The Neuroscience
Task switching leaves attention residue — part of the mind stays with the previous task. Laboratory studies summarized by the American Psychological Association put the cost of heavy switching at up to 40% of productive time, and interruption research finds fully returning to a task takes on the order of 23 minutes. Asynchronous work exists to protect blocks of unbroken attention.
Selected research
- Rubinstein, J. S., Meyer, D. E., & Evans, J. E. (2001). Executive control of cognitive processes in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27(4), 763–797.
- American Psychological Association (2006). Multitasking: Switching costs — research summary.
- Mark, G., Gudith, D., & Klocke, U. (2008). The cost of interrupted work: More speed and stress. Proceedings of CHI 2008, 107–110.
From the research
The thinking behind this lab, published in full: