Minor Issues: Learning to focus in the face of an avalanche of interruptions

Research shows that many of the interruptions that knowledge workers encounter actually originate from themselves. PHOTO: PIXABAY
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SINGAPORE – Imagine being interrupted 60 times an hour as you are working on something important. With such a high degree of interruption, how can anything get done?

Yet in reality, interruptions are happening even more frequently than that. Researchers have found that workers spend less than 47 seconds on a screen before being interrupted.

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