Always-on, multitasking work environments are killing productivity, dampening creativity, and making us unhappy.
In this article posted in the McKinsey Quarterly, the authors recognize that "for all the benefits of the information technology and communications revolution, it has a well-known dark side: information overload and its close cousin, attention fragmentation. These scourges hit CEOs and their colleagues in the C-suite particularly hard because senior executives so badly need uninterrupted time to synthesize information from many different sources, reflect on its implications for the organization, apply judgment, make trade-offs, and arrive at good decisions."
The article discusses the perils of multitasking and how to regain control of your workday by creating solo time, deciding what you will and won't read in your inbox, ensuring you get down time every day, and rethinking about how you work.
The article, Recovering from information overload, is posted in our business article library. Click here to go there.
The authors are Derek Dean and Caroline Webb. Derek Dean is an alumnus of McKinsey’s San Francisco office, where he was a director; Caroline Webb is a principal in the London office.
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