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Technology creates many efficiencies, but it can also lead to wasted time. In fact, half of the top 10 productivity killers at work involve technology, CareerBuilder found in a recent survey.
The top 10 list includes:
- Cell phone/texting (cited by 50 percent of employers),
- Gossip (42 percent),
- The Internet (39 percent),
- Social media (38 percent),
- Snack breaks or smoke breaks (27 percent),
- Noisy coworkers (24 percent),
- Meetings (23 percent),
- E-mail (23 percent),
- Coworkers stopping by (23 percent), and
- Calls on speaker phone (10 percent).
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Here are some tips from CareerBuilder that you might want to incorporate into training to help boost productivity:
- Organize and prioritize projects.
- Limit interruptions (e.g., reserve a conference room to work on a project, read e-mail at set times during the day, etc).
- Avoid unnecessary meetings.
- Attend to personal tasks during breaks or after work.
- Talk to colleagues in person if they are close by or call them instead of writing a lengthy e-mail.
- Do not waste time on other tasks when you have a less preferred—but more important—project to complete.
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Train employees to follow these techniques to ensure that technology is a productivity booster and not a productivity killer.