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| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Wade, Nicholas |
| Copyright Year | 1983 |
| Abstract | YOU know the kind of day. You set time aside to finish a report only to be constantly interrupted by crises in the office, whining colleagues, calls from family, gossip at the coffee machine and saucy emails. You end up writing the thing at home, after the kids are asleep. For more and more people, every day feels like this-one long string of interruptions Office life can sometimes seem like a constant stream with only the gaps in between to get anything done. However bad YOU think it is it's probably of calls, alerts and interruptions. Can technology save worse. When researchers at the University of the working day, asks Alison Moth k California, Irvine set out to quantify the problem, they figured people were probably overreacting, that we probably got in a good disorder, and says that over the last few years Hallowell, who has just written a book on the quarter-hour or so between disruptions. But he has seen an increase in people claiming to subject, CrazyBusy. after shadowing a dozen information workers have "developedJJ the disorder in adulthood. So how do we improve the situation? for three days, they found that on average, Patients complain that they are distracted, As anyone working in an office knows, they got just three sustained minutes of work forgetful, disorganised and impulsive-and interruptions are often necessary: we need in before being diverted. "I was shocked," they can't get anything done. But for many of to discuss projects with our colleagues, take says Gloria Mark, who ran the study. them the symptoms mysteriously disappear important phone calls and so on, and we need It wasn't always like this. In the good old days, if somebody didn't have the chutzpah to walk over and disturb you in person, they when they are on holiday. breaks. But now that there are more ways to The problem, he soon realised, was their be interrupted, it is even more difficult to work environment, and their lack of control keep the day under our control. pretty much had to rely on the telephone or over their own interruptions. "Technology Technology may be at the root of all this, the post. Now your friends and colleagues used properly is a blessing, but when used but some researchers believe it's the solution think nothing of emailing, texting, leaving wrong, it's downright destructive," says too. Put your ear to the … |
| Starting Page | 133 |
| Ending Page | 133 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1038/306133a0 |
| Volume Number | 306 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.interruptions.net/literature/Motluk-NewScientist06.pdf |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://interruptions.net/literature/Motluk-NewScientist06.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.interruptions.net/literature/Motluk-NewScientist06.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1038/306133a0 |
| Journal | Nature |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
