interrupted by an email?
By ingvald. Filed in Biz, EN, SW dev |Tags: email, flow, focus
or rather, do you let yourself be interrupted?
then it takes time to get back to what you were doing, and then more time to get back in the flow.
The October issue of Real Simple magazine quotes a Microsoft and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign study that claims it takes 17 minutes “for a worker interrupted by e-mail to get back to what she was doing.”