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Just as the title asks I've noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they're reading.

They'll read it and despite all the information being there, if it's even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it's complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it's making me lose my fucking mind.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I have to communicate to a group of people in an info-mailer at work, I list succinct bullet points now and high-lite the key words in them. Nobody reads anymore, it's a skim up until they see a trigger word and then it's over. People never read compl

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bullet points and starting each paragraph with @department so that everyone understands which section is related to them.

I started doing this and things were easier, although some department team members or even directors were usually terrible at answering the requested info.

One person from the security team was incredibly annoying as they always reply with really unhelpful one-liners

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When? When what?