18 Wednesday Jun 2008
Posted in A Step A Day
Here’s one more article that confirms that “fractured attention” – getting distracted at work due to email or IM, amongst other causes- is not only on the increase but is causing organisations quite a bomb.
Basex estimates that in the United States more than $ 650 billion in productivity is lost annually because of unnecessary interruptions- most of them mundane. The firm says a big chunk of that cost comes from the time people take to recover from an interruption and get back to work.
30 Friday May 2008
Posted in A Step A Day
In the context of managing time, do you consider email as a friend or a foe? The amount of time executives use to deal with email is increasing by the minute, as it were. The Daily Telegraph reported a study done by the Radicati Group which threw up some amazing figures. Worldwide email traffic, they say, has reached 196 billion messages a day and is predicted to reach 374 billion messages per day in 2011- which is not very far off.
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