“We don’t want to pontificate or solve the wrong problems. We want to get to the heart of what’s holding teams back,” Annie Dean, outspoken distributed work advocate and leader of software firm Atlassian’s Team Anywhere, recently told Fortune. Right now, the holdup seems to be that actual work isn’t getting done. Rather, presenteeism, or just appearing to be working so your boss doesn’t think you’re slacking, has become a growing issue.
For a new report, The State of Teams, Atlassian surveyed 5,000 knowledge workers across the U.S., Australia, India, Germany, and France—as well as 100 Fortune 500 executives. Dean and her team wanted to understand the pressing issue, amid stalled productivity: Why are teams wasting time, and where is that time going?
