Ring, Ding, Tap, Knock…we are the interrupted workforce. Through our social training we have allowed interruptions to eat up 2.1 hours of our day (28% of the average workday)…ouch. But there is more, once we are off course it takes 25 minutes to return to the task we were working on before the break, if, that is we return to it at all…Houston we have a problem!
That’s the stats…Business Week writer Toddi Gutner, share some fixes:
- Rank your work in order of priority and complete the important stuff first
- Touch physical and digital documents only one time
- Estimate how you are going to invest your time
- Track your time to see how it measures against your projections
- Plan your time (from when you will check email, have meetings, clean your desk)
- Plan uniterruptable time (shut your door, phone goes straight to voicemail, headphones on – what ever it takes)
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