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The hidden cost of context switching
why doing “a bit of everything” is slowing your team down
👋 Welcome back to All Things Remote: your weekly shortcut to building lean, efficient remote teams without the chaos.
In today’s send:
✅ The hidden cost of constant context switching
✅ Why focus is a team advantage, not just a personal habit
✅ How to design async work that actually sticks
But first: answer this & be honest 👀
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Ok let’s get into it…
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I heard this from a founder last week: “everything feels slower than it should be, we’re moving, we’re getting stuff done, and we have a smart time but just not as fast as I want”
Does that sound familiar to you?
That drag isn’t usually from poor performance, it’s from context switching.
You’re solving one problem in Notion, reviewing a doc in Slack, approving a budget in a different thread… and by the end of the day, you feel like you’ve done 54+ things, but barely made progress on anything.
Your team will feel this too.
It’s likely they are pulled in five directions at once, with no clear priority or flow.
Why this matters: context switching isn’t just lost time, it’s lost focus.
Every “quick check” can cost 20–30 minutes of mental reboot time. Across your team, that’s dozens of lost hours a week (!!)
And the real danger is that is happens accross your entire teams, your team starts confusing movement with momentum, everyone feels busy but nothing is actually moving the needle.
How to fix it (from an ops lens)
Here’s how I’ve helped teams get their focus (and time) back 👇