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Key takeaways
- Greater accessibility to information reduces employees' ability to remember and recall knowledge over time.
- Reliance on external sources and immediate answers weakens individual learning and erodes organizational expertise.
- Design workflows that prompt retrieval practice, distributed responsibility, and periodic recall to maintain shared knowledge.
Your organization has invested heavily in collaboration. Employees communicate through Slack and Microsoft Teams. Knowledge is stored in shared drives. AI assistants retrieve policies, summarize meetings, and answer questions instantly. Internal social platforms make it easier than ever to identify who has expertise across the organization. The assumption behind these investments is simple: Greater connectivity leads to better learning. If employees can reach more people and access more information, they should become more knowledgeable. But that assumption deserves a closer look.
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