’ll be
short, I know you have work to do (and tweets to check and a texts to respond
to and co-workers to gossip with and…).
I just want
to distract you for a moment with this crazy statistic on office
distractions reported by Rachel Emma Silverman at The Wall Street
Journal:
Office
workers are interrupted—or self-interrupt—roughly every three minutes, academic
studies have found, with numerous distractions coming in both digital and human
forms. Once thrown off track, it can take some 23 minutes for a worker to
return to the original task, says Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at
the University of California, Irvine, who studies digital distraction.
Wow! Someone
else can do the math on how much actual work gets done in a day. It’s not a
lot.
In her
brilliantly titled piece, “Here’s Why You Won’t Finish This Article,” Silverman
points out a few initiatives companies are taking to limit office distractions.
Here they are in super short list form:
- Limiting or banning internal emails
- Reducing the number of projects an employee can work on
- Using the telephone (instead of email) for complex or urgent conversations
- Implementing a no-device policy for meetings
- Devoting specific time as “think time” while limiting things like email and meeting unless urgent
Now, back to
(three more minutes of) work!
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