Computers & Email are hurting productivity

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

Americans work more, seem to accomplish less 
 
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By Ellen Wulfhorst Thu Feb 23, 9:58 AM ET 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most U.S. workers say they feel rushed on the job, but
they are getting less accomplished than a decade ago, according to newly
released research. 

Workers completed two-thirds of their work in an average day last year, down
from about three-quarters in a 1994 study, according to research conducted
for Day-Timers Inc., an East Texas, Pennsylvania-based maker of
organizational products.

The biggest culprit is the technology that was supposed to make work quicker
and easier, experts say.

"Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's
slowed everything down, paradoxically," said John Challenger, chief
executive of Chicago-based outplacement consultants Challenger, Gray &
Christmas Inc.

"We never concentrate on one task anymore. You take a little chip out of it,
and then you're on to the next thing," Challenger said on Wednesday. "It's
harder to feel like you're accomplishing something."

Unlike a decade ago, U.S. workers are bombarded with e-mail, computer
messages, cell phone calls, voice mails and the like, research showed.

The average time spent on a computer at work was almost 16 hours a week last
year, compared with 9.5 hours a decade ago, according to the Day-Timer
research released this week.

Workers typically get 46 e-mails a day, nearly half of which are
unsolicited, it said.

Sixty percent of workers say they always or frequently feel rushed, but
those who feel extremely or very productive dropped to 51 percent from 83
percent in 1994, the research showed.

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