Once your organization has fallen into the hive mind, it’s in each individual’s immediate interest to stick with this workflow, even if it leads to a bad long-term outcome for the organization as a whole. It makes your life strictly easier in the moment if you can expect quick responses to messages that you shoot off to colleagues. Similarly, if you unilaterally decrease the time you spend checking your inbox in a group that depends on the hive mind, you’ll slow down other people’s efforts, generating annoyance and dissatisfaction that might put your job in jeopardy.
