“The average office worker now spends 40 percent of their work time wrongly believing they are "multitasking"--which means they are incurring all these costs for their attention and focus. In fact, uninterrupted time is becoming rare. One study found that most of us working in offices never get a whole hour uninterrupted in a normal day.”
This quote hit home. so much so.
I dont multi-task, I actively dont multi task and have not done for many years. It does not work for me.
Have had many discussions about this over the years with various managers and workers, mainly related to offsite working and also work from home, pre COVID. Real struggles over the years to get approval for various workers to stretch their locations and gain that period of quiet to work undistracted and focused.
Many arguments with managers who did not want to believe the numbers and more importantly wanted bums on seats in the offices, more than it seemed they wanted the work done or quality of work.
Universally, those that were requesting it returned gains in productivity and also quality of work afterwards. Equally important imho was they were happier and thought they were doing their jobs better. In my view their satisfaction levels went up.
Those same managers had all their arguments blown out of the water during covid, the numbers dont lie, productivity in some areas went through the roof, once you removed interruptions and distractions and allow the workers to do their jobs.
personally, for decades in my work life, I have actively sought out and planned those periods in, an hour uninterrupted is worth many hours of split attention work imho.
also, people underestimate in my experience, the time lost in switching between tasks, or the reduced efficiency when splitting attention between two or more things, as you rarely do both, you switch from one to the other. time-slicing them each time you do, you spend some time putting one down and picking the other up, even if just mentally and not physically.
then again maybe they are compensating and allowing for the limited attention span and trying to keep that rush going from being so busy while standing still.
From the title and the few quotes google threw up, think this is worth a read.
Thanks for bringing it up
TheDude wrote: * | Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:36 pm |
This all made me think of
Edward de Bono's and his book on Simplicity because he talks about looking at both sides of things to get a better picture of the whole, that way we can make better decisions.
Very much so
brings this to mind:
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/3d-sl ... l-illusion