Productivity Is Relative And Those New Fangled Interruptions Don't Help
from the better-off-having-ADD dept
Last year we wrote about how much our daily work day is filled with interruptions, often due to new technologies. It seems that many workers are feeling that way. A new study suggests that workers are getting less accomplished during the workday, in part due to all the interruptions caused by new technologies. The other angle that's interesting here is the suggestion that these new technologies really have helped productivity -- just not as much as promised or expected. Thus, people feel like they've accomplished less, because they've taken the expected productivity increases into account, and in many ways feel like they're falling further behind in not meeting those expectations -- even if they get more done in real terms. Either way, it's growing evidence that, perhaps, having attention deficit disorder is actually a benefit in the tech world, as it makes it easier to deal with some of these challenges. Update: Jeremy Wagstaff points out that the company that sponsored this study apparently has unproductive, interrupted workers as well. On their website, they tried to post a link to the press release announcing the study... but they screwed up the link. Oh well.
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An interesting idea.
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Like a big switch that they can flip (with one of those plastic switch protectors)... maybe a key too. So they hit that, and BAM, All distractions cut off, little light goes on outside their door "Do not disturb, Flowin'"
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Productivity and you
How people work would be quite subjective because each of us has different work attitudes, work habits. Sometimes the new technologies do help because there are tasks that are done faster. However, sometimes we abuse those possibilities and so we end up misappropriating our efforts.
But then again, this is just my observation.
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Re: That's your job
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On a lighter note we are running out of water allready in the UK.
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We have a study commissioned by a time organizing company saying that employees 'feel' less productive, mainly because of interruptions (bad time management).
Then put in the backdrop of the steady growth in US productivity over recent years. It's almost laughable.
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Is it just a perception problem?
So you have all these additional requests for your time, which makes you feel like you aren't getting anything done. It's a bucket with a hole in it.
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