Productivity Facts That Will Shock You
Posted on July 9, 2012 by LJ Earnest
Categories: Productivity
Estimated reading time: 0 minutes, 31 seconds
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How much productivity do you think you lose every time you try to multitask?
5%? 10%?
Nope.
20% to 40%.
And checking your email while doing a creative task effectively lowers your IQ by 10 points in the moment.
YIKES!
And how long does it take you to get back to a task once you’re interrupted?
25 minutes.
25 minutes of lost time just because you stopped to do something else.
I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t have that kind of time, IQ or productivity to spare.
Check out the full infographic below (click to see full size). Credit: The Gap Partnership
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