Remove the Number One Distraction at Work
Posted: April 24, 2018
From the constant flow of emails to coworkers chatting about their day, distractions happen all the time in the work place. Multi-tasking actually decreases your ability to be productive, and your mobile device is the number one distraction. One simple trick can make sure you're not letting your phone kill your productivity.
Benjamin Tiller, writer for Dumb Little Man, shares how to get rid of mobile phone workplace distraction.
Coworkers, emails, phone calls, customers or clients…. The amount of things that can distract us from our responsibilities in a work day is enormous. Normally, we don’t resist these distractions and we end up switching over to them because want to.
This kind of multi-tasking kills our ability to be productive.
Scientific studies have shown that we lose 40% of our time due to switching between tasks. That means that we’re losing 16 hours of our work week by multitasking alone.
The #1 offender that gets us off track?
Mobile phones in the workplace.
Why are mobile phones so good at getting us off track?
There’s actually a simple explanation and it has to do with the way our brains work.
It’s called the Triune Brain Theory.
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