Created IT consortium against information overload
Everyone knows that constant distractions have a very negative effect on labor productivity. These are mobile calls, messages in the IM pager, the desire to see updates on your favorite site, etc. The main thing is that there are more and more of these distracting factors, whereas the human brain, by its very nature, is completely unsuited for multitasking . The efficiency of work in such conditions drops sharply.
The interest of scientists to this problem, of course, pleases, but it needs to be addressed right now, because working in modern offices can not be called effective. Because of information overload, a typical IT employee is wasting more than a quarter of his working time (see diagram).
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And it became known that the world's largest IT corporations had risen to fight the “plague of the 21st century”, that is, with information overload. Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM and other companies last week agreed to create a non-profit working group Information Overload Research Group, which will develop psychological and technological recommendations to help office workers.
Of course, there is a certain irony in the fact that it was those companies that created this problem that decided to fight the problem.
Without waiting for official recommendations from specialists, many companies are already conducting their own experiments, trying to help employees at least a little to cope with information overload and make them work a little more efficiently.
For example, one of the Google programmers wrote the E-Mail Addict program, which is implemented as a function for the Gmail mail service and by pressing a special button forcibly blocks the user's mailbox for 15 minutes.
As the RescueTime study showed, a typical office worker checks his email more than 50 times a day, and also, on average, 77 times a day, is distracted by an IM-pager and views 40 extraneous web pages. Distractions in the workplace are hurting the US economy more than $ 650 billion a year. The main problem is that after each such distraction it takes time for the human brain to return to an effective mode of operation and be able to focus on the current task.
The first meeting of the Information Overload Research Group working group will be held in July in New York.
The interest of scientists to this problem, of course, pleases, but it needs to be addressed right now, because working in modern offices can not be called effective. Because of information overload, a typical IT employee is wasting more than a quarter of his working time (see diagram).
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And it became known that the world's largest IT corporations had risen to fight the “plague of the 21st century”, that is, with information overload. Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM and other companies last week agreed to create a non-profit working group Information Overload Research Group, which will develop psychological and technological recommendations to help office workers.
Of course, there is a certain irony in the fact that it was those companies that created this problem that decided to fight the problem.
Without waiting for official recommendations from specialists, many companies are already conducting their own experiments, trying to help employees at least a little to cope with information overload and make them work a little more efficiently.
For example, one of the Google programmers wrote the E-Mail Addict program, which is implemented as a function for the Gmail mail service and by pressing a special button forcibly blocks the user's mailbox for 15 minutes.
As the RescueTime study showed, a typical office worker checks his email more than 50 times a day, and also, on average, 77 times a day, is distracted by an IM-pager and views 40 extraneous web pages. Distractions in the workplace are hurting the US economy more than $ 650 billion a year. The main problem is that after each such distraction it takes time for the human brain to return to an effective mode of operation and be able to focus on the current task.
The first meeting of the Information Overload Research Group working group will be held in July in New York.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/27568/
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