You’re not getting anything out of working 60+ hour weeks – especially if the time you’re spending isn’t spent in deep concentration (and let’s be honest, they never are). Of course, you could always try to find somewhere to hide and/or beg your boss to let you work remotely as well. You could also use something like BusyLight or Saent, which indicates when you’re doing deep work versus when you’re not by changing the color of the light as you enter different work modes. Let coworkers know that they should only approach you if there’s an absolute emergency when you have your earbuds in. There are multiple ways you could do this.įor one, you could listen to classical music or white noise to clear out the background chatter. Unfortunately, 70 percent of companies have an open floor plan and so, it’s vital you find a way to cope.īy signals, I mean, signal to your coworkers when they should and shouldn’t approach you. This is probably why " open office workers are 66 percent less productive” than those with privacy. The constant noise, constant interruptions, and being forced to listen to your coworker’s conversations is no hotbed for deep work. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand why open offices decrease productivity. If you’re worried about your clients being left in the dark while you go incommunicado, create an out-of-office canned email or away message letting senders know when they can expect a response (i.e. This will give you undistracted focus for your deep work and help you plan a time to perform the shallow work of responding to messages, so nothing slips through the cracks.
1: Silence Notificationsĭesignate specific times for your phone to go on silent, and pencil in designated times to check and respond to your notifications later. If you immediately answer every text, email and Slack message you receive throughout the day, you’ll never be able to get into the flow of deep work.Īnd not responding won’t help either, because just the thought of having to deal with answering that message later will stress you out, distracting you from your current task. It’s not that surprising when you consider the fact that your productivity takes a nosedive the moment you hear your phone buzz. What are the biggest distractions at work? Notifications, according to CareerBuilder. So, what kills productivity? Here’s our shortlist:
And to be ready for them, you must know what they are. However, before you can kill them, you have to be ready for them. To succeed, you must kill these distractions before they kill you. In fact, the average office worker gets distracted every three minutes and then takes a whopping 23+ minutes to find their concentration again. Most of us ashamedly succumb to one or more distractions every hour.
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