Last week, we explored the idea of Cal Newport’s Deep Work — the ability to focus without distraction on cognitively demanding tasks — and why it has become a powerful leadership advantage in a ...

Since the pandemic, a growing number of companies have turned to employee monitoring software to track productivity. But they're missing the real culprit behind missed deadlines or lagging sales, ...

Combinations of tools like Presence and training can go a long way to reducing the wasted time and lost productivity due to digital distractions. Getting work done with all the communications ...

Positive interventions that distract us from difficult tasks actually help to reduce our stress levels, according to new research from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and Trinity Business ...

TikTok, Instagram, and Pinterest can be huge distractions at work. Other social content can derail team collaboration. For years, public handwringing about the impact of social media on the minds and ...

Our minds are simply not designed follow multiple trains of thought simultaneously, and so task switching comes at immediate, and lasting, time and productivity costs. The solution is to prepare for ...

Businesses that fear their employees are being sidetracked by watching online video at work now have more to worry about: At the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas this week, ...

If you’re like most people, your phone has become an extra appendage to your body. You compulsively give it a glance any time you get a new message or notification — and sometimes as an unintentional ...