So much to do, so little time. And it doesn't help that the guy down the hall is always dropping by your cubicle to share unsolicited lawn-care tips. Then there are the phone, the e-mail, the micromanaging boss to deal with. On a typical day office workers are interrupted about seven times an hour, which adds up to 56 interruptions a day, 80% of which are considered trivial, according to time-management experts. "We pride ourselves on being multitaskers, but the truth is, we're functioning at a state of partial attention," says John White, international program director with Priority Management, a training...
Please, Go Away
TO AID PRODUCTIVITY, OFFICE WORKERS ARE TRYING NEW TECHNIQUES TO CURB INTERRUPTIONS
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