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How to Stop Wasting Time at Work
How many hours a day do you work? Eight or so, you say? Hah. Liar. I'm talking about actually working, not chatting with friends, surfing the Web, checking e-mail, grabbing lunch, taking a bathroom break ... you get the picture. I was mulling the work/not work divide...
Tags: Distraction, E-mail, Online Communications, CC Holland
Blog posts 2008-05-19
Automatically Minimize Desktop Distractions
In Slate a few days ago, Jeffrey MacIntyre wrote about a few small applications he likes to call ZenWare for their supposed ability to cull distractions from your desktop. He tested a few of them out, and came away particularly impressed with Spirited Away for Macs—the PC version is Swept...
Tags: Distraction, Desktops, Instant Messaging, Hardware, Internet, Online Communications, David Goldenberg
Blog posts 2008-01-28
7 Ways To Beat Distractions When Working from Home
As a freelance writer, my office is located in my home. I constantly grapple with the challenge of staying focused on my work with so many distractions surrounding me. There's a dog to be walked, laundry to be done, broken latches to be fixed, a yard to rake... and when...
Tags: Distraction, Chore, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, CC Holland
Blog posts 2008-11-05
The Value of Distractions
The Find: Empirical research has found that it's sometimes counter-productive for managers to insist their teams keep their noses to the grindstone: distractions can help solve the most difficult problems. The Source: New research led by Kellogg School of Management Professor Adam Galinsky published in the September...
Tags: Distraction, Team Management, Management, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2008-10-02
Making It Pay - Converting the Early Promise of Procurement Into Realized Value Through Outsourcing
Global financial institutions sink or swim in today's highly competitive markets based on their ability to source and distribute capital at attractive prices with the right service package, while keeping costs down across the board. In such a challenging environment, purchasing and paying for everything from paper to computers can...
Tags: Distraction, Accenture Ltd., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Outsourcing, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
White papers
Making Self-Care A Priority: Time Management
Getting the outer facets of your life into order is an important part of time management, but so also is learning how to balance yourself from within. This is one area that many people skip without realizing how it can keep them stuck in patterns of chaos and distraction. It's...
Tags: Distraction, Chaos, Self Improvement Ideas, Time Management, Productivity
White papers 2008-05-13
How To Be Stress Free At Work
Having trouble relaxing or being productive at work? You are not alone. Many distractions and deterrents may occur at work, but there are always solutions. Distractions happen, but you can minimize them happening to you. Several insights and actions can be utilized during the workday to ensure that you are...
Tags: Distraction
White papers 2007-07-09
How To Manage People Who Waste Your Time At Work
One of the challenges facing you in workplace is the constant stream of distractions that happen on an on-going basis every single day. At the end of the work day, you often wonder why you have not completed that task or written that document which needs to be ready by...
Tags: Distraction, Many-Articles.com, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2007-02-28
Coping With Conversational Distraction in the Modern Workplace
Sound not only affects one's mood and emotions, it can affect what one thinks and, indeed, one's ability to hear himself or herself think. In the workplace, bad acoustical design can increase stress and reduce productivity. At any given time, a cubicle worker may be overhearing one or more phone...
Tags: Distraction, Workplace, Sound Guy, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers
Friday Distractions and Readings for the Weekend
Here are a few lighter workplace reads to get you to the closing bell. by Stefan Deeran
Tags: Distraction, Bell, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Stefan Deeran
Blog posts 2009-06-19

Additional Resources

General Motors to conduct driver distraction study. (Business).
WARREN, Mich.--General Motors Corp. and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced they plan to conduct a multi-year driver distraction study. GM Research & Develo WARREN, Mich.--General Motors Corp....
Tags: General Motors Corp.
Research articles 2002-04-29
Internet Watch - driver distraction - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
Driver Distraction Is Topic of Discussion on Recent Internet Forum We all know about driver distraction. Who among us can say they've never switched on the radio, fumbled for the 25-cent toll, scolded the kids, or finished off that fast-food burger while driving the car? These are distractions. And,...
Tags: Fax, INTERNET, U.S. Department of Transportation, WIRELESS
Research articles 2000-11-01
A 3-D System for Planning and Simulating Minimally-Invasive Distraction Osteogenesis of the Facial Skeleton
Three-dimensional planning tools will enable the use of minimally-invasive distraction osteogenesis for the correction of cranio-maxillofacial deformities by simulating treatment, precisely quantifying movement vectors, and aiding pre and post-treatment evaluation. Current techniques extrapolate 3D surgical movements and outcomes based on standard 2D radiographs. Surgical planning and outcome evaluation would be...
Tags: 3D, Harvard College
White papers 2001-01-30
Federer dodges distraction to double-up into Gstaad semis
GSTAAD, Switzerland AFP ? Roger Federer did double duty on the high-altitude clay, taming the tallest man in tennis in the second round and then holding off a Czech challenge to reach the semi-finals at the 544,750-euro Swiss Open. The world number one and top seed had to avoid...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, helicopter, TVs
Research articles 2004-07-09
Abbey says recovery hit by takeover distraction
LONDON AFP — British bank Abbey National said that its share of Britain's mortgage-lending market slipped in the third quarter, blaming the drop on distraction due to its looming takeover by Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano SCH. Britain's second-biggest home-loan provider said its share of gross mortgage lending for...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, Britain, FINANCE, Mortgages, recovery, Spain
Research articles 2004-10-27
Kerik apologizes for 'big distraction'
WASHINGTON -- The White House renewed its search for a homeland security chief Saturday as the candidate President Bush thought ideal apologized for an immigration problem involving a family housekeeper that forced him to withdraw. "I owe the president . . . a great apology that this may...
Tags: FINANCE, Taxes, Transportation, White House
Research articles 2004-12-12
Driver safety is no distraction
Minter, Stephen G Occupational Hazards 10-01-2000 Driver safety is no distraction Byline: Minter, Stephen G Volume: 62 Number: 10 ISSN: 00297909 Publication Date: 10-01-2000 Page: 10 Type: Periodical Language: English Once at the top of OSHA's rulemaking agenda, driving safety has fallen off the list, but deaths and...
Tags: Benefits, fatality, OSHA, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Transportation
Research articles 2000-10-01
Dialing A Distraction.(J.D. Power and Associates releases its 2001 Automotive Emerging Technologies Study)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
Previous studies may have concluded that driving while talking isn't a major distraction, but J.D. Power and Associates found otherwise. Its 2001 Automotive Emerging Technologies Study, which polled nearly 13,000 consumers who purchased or leased a new car, found that 64 percent consider dialing a phone...
Tags: J.D. Power and Associates
Research articles 2001-08-13
FOOTBALL: Ferguson welcomes distraction of derby
AFTER THE week that Sir Alex Ferguson has had, the distraction of today's Manchester derby could not have come soon enough, despite the defensive problems currently casting a shadow over his bid to keep the title out of Arsenal's grasp. The passions that will be generated by...
Tags: Manchester United Ltd.
Research articles 2004-02-14
Nyko Launches SpeakerCom for Xbox Live Online Games; Headset Alternative Enables Gamers to Communicate In-Game Without Distraction or Discomfort
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers E3Expo 2004 LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--May 12, 2004 Nyko TechnologiesTM, a leading manufacturer of innovative peripherals for video and computer games, has produced an ideal headset alternative for use with XboxR Live Online Games -- the Nyko SpeakerComTM. The controller-mounted SpeakerCom allows players to speak...
Tags: Nyko Technologies Inc.
Research articles 2004-05-12
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