Digital Collaboration Guidelines describe how to use communication software to efficiently achieve shared goals. Digital Collaboration Guidelines can include workflows, best practices, boundaries, or expectations. The presentation includes seven examples.

1. by
your cheerful OperationsAlly
Dr. Ada Y. Barlatt
P. Eng. Ph. D.
Can you share
some examples
of digital
collaboration
guidelines in
use?
Question & Answer

2. Digital Collaboration Guidelines
describe how to use
communication software
to efficiently achieve shared goals.

3. Digital Collaboration Guidelines can include:
• workflows,
• best practices,
• boundaries, or
• expectations
The following examples highlight the many ways
these types of guidelines can be designed!

4. has email holidays company wide
Source: Washington Post

5. sends anyone who sends an email
after 7 p.m. an auto-response stating
the message was “out of schedule”
Source: Fast Company

6. Source: NPR
has policy that tells
hourly workers not to read
emails after work

7. Source: Buffer Open Blog
marketing team
eliminated Slack on Fridays
over the Summer

8. Source: Fast Company
requests that employees not
send email between
10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on weekdays,
and all day Saturday and Sunday

9. encourages no work emails
between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m
Source: Global News

10. implemented guidelines that:
• Describe best practices to improve the
messages sent
• Define appropriate and inappropriate channels
for workplace communication
• Set expectations for when the team needed to
be checking their work messages
Source: OperationsAlly Case Study

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