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In 2004, we measured the average attention on a screen to be 2 ½ minutes, some years later, we found attention spans to be about 75 seconds. Now we find people can only pay attention to one screen for an average of 47 seconds.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
With the exception of a few rare individuals, there is no such thing as multitasking, unless one of the tasks is automatic, like chewing gum or walking, you can not do two effortful things at the same time. For example, she said, you ca n’t read email and be in a video meeting. When you focus on one, you lose the other.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We cut off email for some workers in an organization for one work week, using heart rate monitors, we found that they became significantly less stressed and were able to focus significantly longer.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s no way that a person can just completely cut off from technology and work in today’s world, so let’s learn how to live with it in a way that maintains our positive well-being.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Just a 20-minute walk in nature can help significantly relax people, and we found it can help people produce significantly more ideas — it’s called divergent thinking.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have a friend who is an MIT professor and his favorite activity is matching socks, another friend likes to iron. Ideas can incubate and then we come back to the hard work and we see it with fresh eyes.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
In fact, our research shows it takes 25 minutes, 26 seconds, before we go back to the original working sphere, or project.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
If we look at work in terms of switching projects, as opposed to the micro view of switching screens, we find people spend about 10 ½ minutes in any work project before being interrupted — internally or by someone else — and then switch to another work project.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
To me, email is probably the worst because it’s become a symbol of work.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's expected that there will be more of an immediate answer because you are expected to be on Slack all the time, with emails, people can turn it off. They can batch their emails where they just look at it two or three times a day. Because of the social component with Slack, it's harder to do that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
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