Do incessant phone calls, never-ending e-mails and answer-me-now instant messages consistently wreck your plans for the working day? You are not alone.

A survey of more than 1,000 “knowledge workers” by the consulting firm Basex finds that “interruptions at work waste 28 percent of the day and cost U.S. businesses a staggering $588 billion a year”. On average, respondents reported that they lost 126 minutes a day. That’s a lot of wasted productivity.

The results are not a surprise, of course, but it’s interesting to see some figures.

Entertaining write-up by Mike Langberg too. Spend some of the 126 mins you will waste today reading it.

Or, if you have a lot of time and money, you can buy the full text of the Basex report. It’s only USD 199. (Jeepers!).

Tags: e-mail, Productivity

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