I receive around 50 to 70 mails per day (on a slow day). Most of them corporate noise from the mother ship. I still need to at least skim them as sometimes parts or single mails are relevant.
Also there is a barrage of mails from the different projects I am onboarded onto as an expert for specific topics.
So I need to take a close look at these and see if there are action items for me included.
Then the regular mails from within the team I need to skim if anything is expected of me.
On top of that there is Slack and MS Teams. And a few different Jira Instances I need to stay on top of.
Over the last 16 months I have seen my team in person exactly once for an afternoon at a working offsite.
When Corona started I did a daily stand-up post in our team channel in Slack. I stopped a few weeks ago as except for one colleague nobody had participated for over a year. So why add to the noise for them I asked myself.
How would you expect me to read additional prose about what my colleagues have done. I just wouldn't get enough out of it. Because the things I would profit from in terms of synergies would be nitty-gritty technical details that would be omitted in a weekly summary.
It would just be additional noise to me.
If I have a question I ask in Slack and receive great substantial replies within very short time. If I can contribute I answer questions in Slack.
Else I do my work and try to ignore as much of the corporate noise as possible. At least it is email noise. Not open space office noise. The latter is harder to ignore.