If that doesn’t work, you might need to consider using one of the many available distraction-blocking apps, such as RescueTime, Cold Turkey, Leechblock and Freedom. Hopefully dealing with this will be as simple as keeping your email client closed and logging out of social media. Keeping your phone on silent, tidying up your workspace, wearing noise-cancelling headphones and making a ‘do not disturb’ sign for your door are all good suggestions for some of the more common distractions we face.Įmail and/or internet-related distractions deserve a special mention.
I mentioned phone and email, but there are plenty of other possibilities such as social media, interruptions from colleagues, alerts from news websites, clutter in your workspace, just to name a few! Once you’ve identified your most common distractions, consider how you can eliminate them. To combat this, think carefully about the types of distractions you face while working.
The time cost of distractions can really start to add up, with some research suggesting that the average worker loses 8 hours of a 40-hour work week to distractions – an entire day! To further compound this, once we start to get behind in our work due to these distractions, we tend to become stressed and compensate by trying to work at a faster pace, all of which reduces productivity and the quality of our work. You might think that you’re reasonably focused when you work, but how often do you stop to check your phone or get interrupted by a notification? Research shows that it takes a significant amount of time to get back into a task once you’ve been interrupted – even if you don’t check your email or phone when a notification arrives, it’s enough to break your concentration.
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