Employees lose nearly four hours a week due to constantly switching between different apps. This may seem inevitable in a digital work environment, but it often results from choices companies make about how they organize their work and what software they use.
For many employees, there is no easy way to avoid the constant switching between documents, websites, and apps. This is because their tasks are often designed in such a way that they need to use multiple programs, and most business programs do not work well together.
To solve this problem, leaders need to invest in better software solutions and focus on the user experience. This way, employees can work more efficiently without unnecessary time loss.
Related:
- Avoid excessive task switching to increase efficiency
- Ensure that your computer screen is large enough so that you can view both the work document and the reference material at the same time
- Attempting to do two or more attention-demanding tasks simultaneously reduces productivity
- A little time pressure while working on your tasks helps to reduce ‘attention residue’
- We pick up our phones over 350 times per day, almost four times more than in 2019
