Email, instant messaging, mobile phones, and social networks, are all responsible for impacting on attention spans and disrupting workplace productivity, according to a recent study which confirms what many of us have known for sometime…
A typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail program more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times, according to one measure by RescueTime, a company that analyzes computer habits. The company, which draws its data from 40,000 people who have tracking software on their computers, found that on average the worker also stops at 40 Web sites over the course of the day.
If we did away with some of these distracting technologies would we in turn spend less time at work, yet more time working?
