A much needed button The need is hardly new. If you’re like every knowledge worker on the planet, you’ve been suffering for years from the incessant inflow of interruptions (one every three minutes on average, research shows) that chop your workday into tiny fragments. The outcome is “Continuous Partial Attention”, and the cost to productivity has been described in detail in my series of insight articles about the effects of information overload. Closing your office door won’t solve this problem. First, because many offices don’t have doors in this day and age – and if they had, there’d still be.. Read more