Inside Closing the Communication Gap, Grammarly shares its perspective on how and why effective written communication is more important than ever before for organizations, teams, and individuals to succeed.
The modern workplace is changing quickly – and so must organizations that want to accomplish their goals. Noteworthy trends include more distributed and diverse workers, an acceleration of new technologies, and rising customer and employee demands to execute tasks with speed but without sacrificing quality. The result is an imperative for better communication. But there is a growing gap between the quality of most communication and what is required for success in this environment.
Consider this:
A distributed workforce means less direct oversight
14% of large companies use off-site spaces.1
Diverse backgrounds mean different levels of readiness
62% of workers did not feel that college/school prepared them for writing at work.2
Digital transformation means more writing (and reading)
28% of the work week is spent reading and answering email.3
Poorly written communication means significant costs
Companies lose a combined $396 billion every year to time employees spend trying to understand poorly written material.4
