What happens when we disconnect to reconnect with our work and each other? Enter Airplane Mode.
Sometimes, the most potent workplace changes come from challenging our most fundamental habits. Enter the latest experiment at our San Francisco office: Airplane Mode.
Starting this week (Oct 16, 2023), we're shutting off the internet for 100 minutes once a week, every week.
No Wi-Fi, no emails, no online distractions — just pure focus.
Several reasons led us to this experiment:
Before we go dark, notifications will serve as reminders, sent out 15 minutes and again 3 minutes before the offline period. It's a prompt for our team to wrap up online tasks and gear up for a productive Airplane Mode.
The overarching aim is to discover the potential unlocked when an entire team disconnects from the online world. Will team members delve into industry-related books? Perhaps they'll use this time to brainstorm with colleagues face-to-face or catch up on emails (for those interested, here’s a guide to enable offline mode in Gmail).
While this is a new venture for us, and we're unsure of the outcomes, our goal remains clear: to observe, learn, and innovate. We're excited about the possibilities and the lessons this experiment might teach us about work, productivity, and creativity.
Always be testing. And in this case, sometimes that means testing what happens when we disconnect to reconnect with our work and each other.
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