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Remote work is sometimes blamed for collaboration issues , but even in the office there can be an emphasis on the number of interactions , rather than the quality of them . Nathan Rawlins , CMO at Lucid , explores the challenges that organisations are facing with workplace alignment and how to equip teams to collaborate efficiently in the modern economy .

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This has been shown by our workplace alignment survey , which revealed workers spend an average of five hours per week just searching for information related to their projects . Similarly , almost half of organisations ( 47 %) lack a standardised way to share documents across their tech stack , leading to gaps in information sharing . And as businesses rack up multiple applications , the challenge becomes compounded by the difficulty in pinpointing exactly what component is causing collaboration to break down .

Given the current economic climate , where business leaders are looking to be more conservative with how they spend , more consideration of the impact of poor collaboration on productivity needs to be taken . Ironically , part of the current problem is the extensive amount of productivity applications that organisations have adopted . Nearly half of the respondents ( 45 %) in our survey admitted to using five or more productivity applications at work . It ’ s not beneficial for anyone to be switching between countless applications for documentation or interaction purposes .

But this problem can be fixed , and it starts with firms refraining from blindly adding any