Tag: Distractions

Workplace Distractions: The Subtle Thieves of Efficiency and Output

By Valeria Cardillo Piccolino, Leadership and Talent Development Advisor, CoachHub Aug 5, 2024 Learning & Development

Updated: Aug 5, 2024

The contemporary office is a minefield of mental bombardment—email alerts incessantly dinging, instant messages demanding immediate response, back-to-back meetings depleting focus, and water cooler banter punctuating every lull. Distractions lurk around every digital corner, making monotasking near impossible. This relentless onslaught of stimuli can quickly induce overstimulation. When deluged with excessive sensory input, the brain […]

How to Limit Distractions at Work

By Lin Grensing-Pophal, Contributing Editor May 14, 2019 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 14, 2019

Distractions not only cause us to take longer to complete tasks but also decrease our quality of work once it’s completed. However, there are ways we can help mitigate and minimize these distractions, and The New York Times best-selling author Joseph Grenny suggests five.

Need to boost productivity? Go to war against workplace distractions

By Tammy Binford Sep 8, 2017 HR Hero Line

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

Ever stop to consider just what your employees do all day? If they’re like a lot of today’s workers, they’re fitting in their core work around a host of distractions and interruptions.  A Harvard Business Review report from March 7, 2016, cites a study showing that the average worker checks email 74 times a day. […]

Personal phones causing a problem at work? Damage control is possible

By Tammy Binford May 19, 2017 HR Hero Line

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

Smartphones. Certainly, they can be tremendous tools, but they also can be major distractions in the workplace. A recent survey from CareerBuilder placed cellphones at the top of a list of productivity killers at work, more of a problem than office gossip, social media, smoke breaks, and other diversions.  Phones are now so much more […]

Find quiet time alone to think

By Dan Oswald Aug 11, 2014 Oswald Letter

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

by Dan Oswald You don’t spend nearly enough time simply thinking. Before you take offense to that statement, consider how much time you spend talking, responding to e-mail, even reading—my guess is that you spend more time doing any one of them than you do thinking. Why do so many people claim they have had […]

Productivity vs. distraction: What keeps workers on and off track?

By Tammy Binford Jul 2, 2014 HR Hero Line

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

Employers are always on a quest for higher productivity. They examine what kind of technology, office design, organizational structure, time management training, etc. will boost performance and the bottom line. But no matter how careful an organization is, distractions can derail even the best laid plans. CareerBuilder recently released a study on what it calls […]