Information Overload Day
Put away your phone and email, and take steps to limit the flow of information to you, a flow which has become an unmanageable flood for most people today.
Position productivity and wellness solutions as antidotes to information overload, targeting knowledge workers and HR departments seeking to improve employee focus and retention.
- 5 ways to reduce email clutter and reclaim 2 hours of your workday
- The hidden cost of information overload: why your team's productivity is suffering
- Digital detox toolkit for busy professionals
- How to set communication boundaries without missing critical updates
Information Overload Day was established by a group of companies looking to bring awareness to what happens when you overload your employees and customers with far too much information. Research has been showing that productivity is actually being hurt by the sheer amount of information flowing through our lives, with the average employee receiving no less than 93 emails a day.
Combine that with the social media that rules our lives, the constant buzz of new text messages, and the old stand-by that is web browsing and getting overwhelmed is pretty understandable. What’s less understandable is that there is becoming a severe economic impact on the time spent on these things, and to be clear that’s time spent for business purposes, not personal.
Just think about the times that you’ve been deep in the middle of a project and suddenly your email dings and you take the time to stop, read through, and reply. Then you have to take a moment to get refocused on your project and start working again, hopefully before yet another email comes in. It’s these little pauses that are adding up to a $180 Billion dollar impact, so clearly something needed to be done.