Know the hazards.
All Pling workplaces must display the following signs. Please read them before your first standup, which has already started.
Mandatory focus training.
Your task is to write one short paragraph. You have 90 seconds. Your colleagues have been told you are free.
Task: summarise Q3 in one paragraph
1:30 left
0 words written
Messages
- Suspiciously quiet. Press Start.
Incident report
Calculate the damage.
Move the sliders to match your day. The numbers are rough, the feeling is not.
The 23 minute default comes from a widely cited study of office workers, who took about that long to get back to an interrupted task. Your mileage may vary. Your manager’s will not.
Danger
You lose about
5.5 hours
a day to getting back on track.
Issue yourself a status.
Every Pling account comes with a lockout tag. Hang it on your profile. It will be ignored with the same care as a real one.
Danger
Do not disturb
Personal protective plans.
Choose the level of exposure that is right for your team.
Incident reports from our customers.
Fictional people. Painfully real situations.
“We replaced email with Pling. Now we have Pling and email.”
Operations lead, a company that no longer knows which
“I set my status to Focusing and got eleven messages asking what I was focusing on.”
Senior developer
“Our standup is now a channel, a huddle, and a thread about the huddle.”
Scrum master, three time zones
“I wrote ‘hey’ on Friday afternoon. They are still waiting.”
Anonymous, Sales