February 14, 2011

Information Overload, Interruptions

[From article]
"technology offered “more opportunities for each person to create information,”
[. . .]
“We were creating and using more technology that allows us to interrupt each other incessantly.”
[. . .]
Gloria Mark of the University of California-Irvine determined that the average knowledge worker switches tasks every three minutes.
“Each interruption comes with this penalty we call ‘recovery time’ — the time it takes to get back to the point where you were,"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jobs/going_under_CYfNjDpebuvcfWpSPfV4VJ

Going under
Information overload is drowning office workers
By CHRIS ERIKSON
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:36 PM, February 14, 2011
Posted: 10:40 PM, February 13, 2011

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