Every time you switch between tabs, apps, or dashboards, your focus takes a hit. It might only take a few seconds—but multiplied across tasks, projects, and meetings, those seconds quietly add up to hours of lost productivity each week. According to workplace research, context switching can reduce efficiency by nearly 40%, costing companies more than any single software subscription ever could.
The irony? Businesses invest heavily in digital tools hoping to improve collaboration, yet end up creating digital clutter instead. Employees must constantly toggle between chats, documents, and trackers just to stay up to date. While project management tools help structure work and CRMs keep customer data organized, most teams still spend much of their day stitching together disconnected systems. The result isn’t efficiency—it’s exhaustion.
Lark was built to solve that. As a connected workspace, it unifies messaging, tasks, documents, and workflows in one place, helping teams save time, reduce friction, and regain focus. The goal isn’t to add another app—it’s to replace digital noise with genuine collaboration.
Lark Messenger: Turning communication into context
Most collaboration fails not because teams don’t talk enough—but because conversations get scattered. Lark Messenger brings everything together by turning daily messages into actionable context.
When a design review is underway, for instance, a manager can discuss updates directly within Lark Messenger, link the related files, and assign follow-up tasks on the spot. No need to jump between chat, email, and task boards. The discussion becomes the workflow.
By keeping communication tied to purpose, Lark Messenger reduces mental clutter and preserves focus. Every message builds momentum instead of distraction.
Lark Base: Keeping information where people actually use it
Data shouldn’t live in isolation. Lark Base helps teams organize and automate work around the information that matters most—without sending employees on scavenger hunts across systems.
A marketing agency, for example, can manage campaign timelines, client deliverables, and budget tracking in one Base. Updates trigger automatic alerts to team members, keeping everyone informed. For companies exposed to traditional CRM software, Lark Base extends its reach reach—connecting customer data with internal workflows, post-sale support, or creative production.
The fewer places employees need to look, the faster they can act. That’s what makes Lark Base a foundation for smarter, calmer collaboration.
Lark Calendar: Reclaiming control over time
Meetings, deadlines, and reminders are usually located across a variety of apps, which causes employees to feel reactive more so than planned. Lark Calendar brings order to all of these happenings by putting every event, meeting, and task inside of one shared space.
Think of the product launch cycle: Marketing can see deadlines to upcoming content, sales can see slots for client presentations, and operations can see key dates for shipping—all on the same timeline. Team members can link Lark Docs or tasks to the meeting that team members get the meeting prepared.
Lark Calendar makes scheduling strategic instead of chaos. People get to spend their time creating value, not coordinating value.
Lark Docs: A workspace that eliminates back-and-forth
The endless search for file versions, lost attachments, and old notes are the productivity killers that conspire behind the scenes. Lark Docs eliminates those frustrations with live documents that allow you to collaborate in real time.
Instead of separate edits and a huge merge at the end, team members can co-author proposals, budgets, or strategy briefs together. Comments come up instantly, and everyone can see the updates. A project plan discussed in Docs can link to Base records or messenger threads, so context travels along with the work. The collaboration and workflow of what you are working on are seamless with this approach.
By eliminating document hand-offs and juggling, Lark Docs gets your mental bandwidth back for the things that actually matter—thinking, writing, and innovating.
Lark Approval: Smoothing everyday operations
While they may seem trivial, administrative tasks can take up significant time when processes are not organized. Lark Approval takes care of these tasks for you by essentially automating repetitive workflows—leave requests, expense reimbursements, purchase approvals, and the like.
The employee submits the request once and it will be routed to the appropriate approvers automatically, it will also keep track of the routing and notify the requester of the updates. No emails, no follow-ups, no uncertainty. A regional manager can approve items while on the road on his phone, keeping the process operating smoothly and responsively.
When workflows flow smoothly, teams re-gain hours of work that are otherwise lost due to backlog in procedural tasks.
Lark OKR: Keeping attention on what truly matters
Changing tools can make priorities feel less like priorities and more like background noise. Lark OKR allows teams to stay focused on what drives outcomes. Each department can see their objectives and measurable results, and that sense of anchoring to shared goals persists while people pile on daily tasks.
For example, to increase client renewals, sales people may be targeting their lows, while marketing folks will be watching engagement growth. Both departments are able to watch real-time progress through Lark OKR dashboards and can observe how their work connects to the larger purpose of the company.
This kind of clarity speeds things up, reduces stress, and makes alignment a daily reality.
Conclusion
Tool overload isn’t just inconvenient—it’s exhausting. When every task requires a switch, the human brain treats it like a micro-reset, consuming energy that should go toward creativity and problem-solving. Lark reverses that pattern by giving teams one place to think, act, and communicate without interruption.
It doesn’t replace specialized systems—it makes them work together. Taking the essence of the modern CRM app, Lark ensures customer conversations, data, and deliverables all flow within a single environment. The cost of switching disappears, replaced by a rhythm of continuous collaboration.
Because productivity shouldn’t be about managing tools—it should be about making space for focus, purpose, and better work.
