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Remove the Number One Distraction at Work

Posted: April 24, 2018
Benjamin Tiller, writer for Dumb Little Man, shares how to get rid of mobile phone workplace distraction.

One Simple Trick to Get Rid of the #1 Workplace Productivity Killer

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. Read the entire article One Simple Trick to Get Rid of the #1 Workplace Productivity Killer on Dumb Little Man.