The Road To Ultimate Productivity

THE ROAD TO ULTIMATE PRODUCTIVITY SAMSUNG People with email switch windows Too much to do? Looming deadlines? If you're feeling overworked but not getting anything done, science has the answer. Research has identified the least-productive behaviours and the biggest distractions. So tame your email, stop multitasking, cut out the distractions and stay off the social networks, and you'll be on the road to ultimate productivity. 200-300 37 EMAIL AND INSTANT MESSAGING times are the biggest multitasking culprits average number of emails received daily by CEOS per hour TAME YOUR EMAIL STOP MULTITASKING Email takes up Multitasking too much of saps people's time productivity Productivity drops Almost a quarter of the work day is spent CHECKING EMAIL 40% 23% when you try to do more than one thing at once SOLUTION SOLUTION • Try inbox zero Try the Pomodoro technique Employees switch tasks EVERY 3 MINUTES • Hack your email • Do one thing at a time BIGGEST DISTRACTIONS 31% 25% ONLINE DISRUPTORS OFFLINE DISRUPTORS f social media (14%) online shopping (12%) meetings (19%) coworkers (17%) telephone calls informal meetings STOP WASTING TIME AVOID DISTRACTIONS Unproductive activities can Interruptions break your waste hours momentum SOLUTION SOLUTION 96 15 More than a third of people routinely waste 30 minutes or less each day • Turn off everything that beeps, pops, buzzes and vibrates minutes of minutes to • Block access to non-work sites during off hours 34% disruptions per day return to tasks • Say “no" to needless meetings, office politics and your boss • Take an email holiday and close the door to your office after a disruption Sources: rescuetime.com | umich.edu | today.uci.edu | ics.uci.edu | citeseerx.ist.psu.edu | Ibid | nytimes.com | salary.com