The Turtle Response
• A Harvard Business School study found that face-to-face interaction drops by 70% in open layouts.
• This is due to the Turtle Response: when exposed visually from all angles, the amygdala triggers a low-level threat state.
• People retreat into digital shells—headphones, screens—to protect cognitive resources.
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OP
The business term for this practice is "quiet firing"
Once I see Harvard I stop reading not reality just propaganda
Anyone else just happy we don't have all the server servers
@dz You have to recognize that HBR is a publication based on ideals somewhat detached from reality. Yes, they present case studies, but these are soon forgotten by the students. the consultants operate in a companies driven by quarter‑on‑quarter performance, where enriching individual wealth matters more than team building. Everyone who has succeeded in this company has done exactly that at the expense of others. Just in case this is a new concept to you.
Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
@dz nutz
@dz I don’t understand what you just said
OP su-ks to that Harvard Business School study. I think the so‑called productivity ‘consultants’ and Investor Day analysts who hype and tout this pandemonium must all come from that school. If these world saving formulas worked Boston would be a nicer place to live. it ain't.
This is Mike W. I don’t care. I need to pay for MNs haircuts.