Science Quote by Gary Keller

“interrupting technology workers is easy, because the consequences are invisible to almost everyone, even though the negative impact to productivity may be far greater…

— Gene Kim

Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute…

— Alvin Toffler

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

— Jason Fried

Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to…

— Susan Cain

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our…

— C. S. Lewis

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he…

— John Medina

Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat…

— David Rock

“the typical worker reaches the most unproductive moment of the day at 2:55 p.m.”

— Daniel H. Pink

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

— W. Edwards Deming

“Management and efficiency studies in the work place tell us that one hour of uninterrupted time is worth three hours of time that is…

— Steve Chandler

“Technological advances now allow us to work 24/7, but they also tempt us to procrastinate 24/7!”

— Jane B. Burka

time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most…

— Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay