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  •     Attention, what attention? - Knowledge Jolt with Jack

    When I saw this post, which I found through someone's twittering (which took me about 1 second to read), within about 10 seconds I thought, oh, that's something to stumble! Which illustrates the point of this article. Excerpt: "It's official: The average knowledge worker has... more

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  • Rated by moritherapy on Aug 26 2008, 5:07pm

    When I saw this post, which I found through someone's twittering (which took me about 1 second to read), within about 10 seconds I thought, oh, that's something to stumble! Which illustrates the point of this article. Excerpt: "It's official: The average knowledge worker has the attention span of a sparrow. Roughly once every three minutes, typical cubicle dwellers set aside whatever they're doing and start something else--anything else. It could be answering the phone, checking e-mail, responding to an instant message, clicking over to YouTube (GOOG), or posting something amusing on Facebook. Constant interruptions are the Achilles' heel of the information economy in the U.S. These distractions consume as much as 28% of the average U.S. worker's day, including recovery time, and sap productivity to the tune of $650 billion a year, according to Basex, a business research company in New York City.