Office Space
This is sort of a follow up to the post a few weeks back about multi-tasking. Earlier this year a UC Irvine study found something I've long suspected: on average a worker can focus for just 11 minutes at a time before being interrupted (by email, a co-worket, etc.) and is unable to refocus again for another 25 minutes (!)
Researchers have calculated that interruptions consume an average of 2.1 hours of every working day, or 28% of the average person's routine. It has reached such an extent that workers are becoming locked in what was described as a mire of multi-tasking.
The report, The Cost of Not Paying Attention, was written by a research team headed by Gloria Mark and Victor Gonzalez. You can read more details on UC Irvine's site.
07/04/02006 11:09 AM
