The ‘Coordination Tax’ at Work Is Wearing Us Down

There is a name for all of the time we spend on the job puzzling out who’s on Zoom, who’s coming from down the hall and who’s messaging from three time zones away: the “coordination tax.”“You show up, and nobody else from your team is there; then you’re on back-to-back Zoom meetings, which you could have done at home,” says Brian Elliott, a leadership adviser and former Slack executive. He referenced the coordination tax of workers’ mismatched hybrid schedules in a LinkedIn post last month.