Why You Need To Master In-Person Conversations In Your Slack-Driven Office

Stepping away from your daily onslaught of digital communication can be one of the best (and easiest) ways to advance your career.

You already know the numbers. The average professional receives around 304 emails each week, requiring some 28 hours to manage, according to Joseph McCormack, author of the book Brief. We also check our smartphones, he writes, roughly 150 times a day, often expressly to deal with work communication. And this is all not to mention the group messaging apps like Slack that seemingly more of us are immersed in every day.

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