At a Microsoft conference last month, the presenters emphasized the same point: The average employee today participates in twice as many teams as a few years ago. This sounds right intuitively, as work tasks and communications seem to constantly increase. 

I have seen it and I am a believer: Organizations can radically improve employee collaboration and culture by implementing a suitable enterprise social network (ESN), such as Microsoft Yammer, IBM Connections, SAP, Jive Software, or Slack.