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...constant splintering and diversion of our attention wastes time and money. In a study of 1,000 officeworkers from top managers on down, Basex, an information-technology research firm in New York City, found that interruptions now consume an average of 2.1 hours a day, or 28% of the workday. The two hours of lost productivity included not only unimportant interruptions and distractions but also the recovery time associated with getting back on task, according to a Basex report titled "The Cost of Not Paying Attention," released in September. Estimating an average salary of $21 an hour for "knowledge workers...
...video, this dissonant pairing takes on a whole new life. The video starts with some “Call On Me” aerobics, before devolving into contorted-face “Windowlicker” territory. We then meet our unreliable narrator, a British factory worker who finds his workday surrounded by orange robot arms that assemble an unknown product...
...Parks was having a good day," writes Giovanni at the start of her retelling of the Rosa Parks story. But, as most Americans know, that chilly, ordinary workday of an extraordinary seamstress in Montgomery, Ala., ultimately helped ignite the civil rights movement. Giovanni, a poet and black activist, keeps her evident moral outrage in check as she tells the tale of Parks' bus ride into history, maintaining the same firm, level tone that Parks did when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man. Parks, Giovanni writes, was tired. "She was tired...
Most troubling of all, what about when enough ambition becomes way too much? Grand dreams unmoored from morals are the stuff of tyrants--or at least of Enron. The 16-hour workday filled with high stress and at-the-desk meals is the stuff of burnout and heart attacks. Even among kids, too much ambition quickly starts to do real harm. In a just completed study, anthropologist Peter Demerath of Ohio State University surveyed 600 students at a high-achieving high school where most of the kids are triple-booked with advanced-placement courses, sports and after-school jobs. About...
Such a reputation is not easy to maintain, and to keep up, West has to schedule his workday around the needs of his students. Joseph says he once found West in his office at 11 p.m. during spring break—he told her it was the only time he could get to his office and get some work done. Indeed, West’s commitment to his students meant that FM only got to talk to him for three minutes on the phone. A student was at his door, he said, and despite what his critics say, duty must...