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Why better digital communication is needed to save the economy from wasted manhours Details Published: 14 May 2021
Employees face something called digital anxiety a phenomenon caused by either too much or too little digital communication.
Our workplace is facing a crisis. And it’s no thanks to the plethora of digital communication platforms available to us. (Think Zoom, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram you name it.)
According to a 2021 survey, conducted in the US by Erica Dhawan, author of Digital Body Language, and Quester, a strategy and insights agency, some 2,000 employees faced digital anxiety a phenomenon caused by either too much or too little digital communication.
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By Liz Scheier | May 07, 2021
In workplaces increasingly reliant on digital communication, teams are left wondering how to interpret tone in an email, whether the person on the other end of the Zoom call is impatient or just fast-talking, and what on Earth those emoji mean. Erica Dhawan offers guidance in
PW called a “sharp, timely treatise”
on navigating these pixelated cues.
When did you first get interested in nonverbal communication?
I grew up as a shy introverted girl in a family of Indian immigrants; I struggled with proficiency in English at school and Hindi at home. Struggling between the languages made it necessary to learn to decipher body languages, and I realized how important that was. Then I taught public speaking at Harvard, where I did graduate work. Over time I began teaching corporate leaders and teams, and I realized that there’s a new phenomenon causing so much misunderstanding in the workplace. Well before Covid, we were seeing thes
By Liz Scheier | May 07, 2021
As the economy begins the long process of rebuilding, a significant number of workers are striking out on their own some unwillingly, following a layoff; some seeing an opportunity to walk away from the nine-to-five grind.
PW spoke with editors about a new batch of books aimed at entrepreneurs, second-shifters, small business dreamers, and all those looking to ditch the W2 for an LLC.
“We’ve had this unthinkable shock to the economy and the job market, and people are feeling the loss of control,” says Talia Krohn, executive editor at Currency. She acquired LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman’s