The ‘Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad’ Effects of Office Interruptions

Did you know the average office worker is interrupted every three minutes and that it can take them 23 minutes just to get back to where they left off? Efficiency and workflow consultant Edward G. Brown has studied the harmful effects of interruptions like these on office productivity, job satisfaction, performance quality, company profits and […]

Are You the Office Time Bandit?

Nobody wants to be one of those dreaded office pariahs, people we’ve probably all worked with—the office screw-up, the whiner, the deadweight, the drama queen, the brown-noser, the credit thief…  These days, in our sped-up culture, there’s another kind of problem employee who causes as much or more grief than any of those stereotypes, because […]