Productivity At Stake
Indian Management|April 2019

Distraction is a workplace reality. It needs concerted efforts to make employees steer clear of it.

Ashish Janiani
Productivity At Stake

According to a major study published on telegraph.co.uk, as humans, our attention spans have dropped from 12 seconds to 8 seconds since 2000. This study was published in 2015. Now, let me fast forward only three years, and look at the following insights by Udemy (Mind you, this is only 150 weeks post the above stats): Millennials and Gen Z are the most likely age group to describe themselves as distracted at work. 74 percent of them report being distracted, and of those, 46 percent say it makes them feel unmotivated, and 41 percent say it stresses them out.

You know what all that means?

It means if you are a manager/VP/CEO/Head HR of an organization, where let us say 100 of your employees are up to the age of 36, 74 out of them are distracted with an attention span of 8 seconds on work at hand!

There are three steps you need to take to transform your workforce for improved time management:

Step 1: Acceptance of the new reality of distracted intelligence

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