Interruption in the workplace is draining not just the workers health and productivity but also the company's profitability

Interruptions In The Workplace

Distraction in the workplace is detrimental to the organization 

Report says 581 hours per person are being lost annually due to distractions at a cost of $34,448 per person

remotework

Remote Work

personaldevelopment

Personal Development

timemanagement

Time Management

Workplace interruptions raise stress and error levels and lower productivity

The predominance of the factory model, a by product of the invention of Henry Ford's automobile, across 20th-century life was total. Factory-style organization was copied and it influenced how knowledge workers were organized.Industrialization ended the era of the artisans, the master craftsmen who owned and mastered their tools of production, and thus, dictated the terms of their employment. But knowledge work, which is made up of abstract problem-solving, is much harder to observe, measure, break down, and templatize (the introduction of AI notwithstanding).

Knowledge Workers Are Not Artisans

We need to overhaul how treat knowledge work so we can truly innovate

Workplace interruptions raise stress and error levels and lower productivity

Leave the Factory Model Behind or Risk Losing Talent

Tunde Ajibawo