Right, the ultimate context switch is constant pinging and meetings. There’s very little reason to have engineers be in 5+ meetings a day. But at a lot of orgs, they are, and that’s an extreme context switch cost 5x a day. It’s different if it’s a purely technical meeting about the problem you’re solving right now, but they’re typically not.
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Right, the ultimate context switch is constant pinging and meetings. There’s very little reason to have engineers be in 5+ meetings a day. But at a lot of orgs, they are, and that’s an extreme context switch cost 5x a day. It’s different if it’s a purely technical meeting about the problem you’re solving right now, but they’re typically not.