Too much of a good thing: Chaos of working apps overload

The very workplace apps intended to streamline tasks have sparked an app overload that's injecting chaos into business workflows and costing enterprises billions in lost productivity, according to a report by RingCentral, a provider of global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solution. 

For communications applications, workers are using an average of four apps, with 20 per cent workers using six or more. This includes apps for phone calls, texts, web meetings, video conferencing, team messaging, and more. Sixty-nine per cent workers waste up to an hour a day navigating between myriad communications apps, amounting to 32 days per year. To