| JULY 19, 2011 Tuesday |
| 96 Minutes of Daily Interruptions |
| A diary study of employees at a multinational company found that just 73% of R&D engineers' planned tasks, on average, were completed by the end of the work day. 58% of the engineers cited interruptions as the reason for leaving tasks incomplete, and their reported daily interruptions (such as colleagues asking questions) averaged 96 minutes. Although urgent tasks tended to be completed, the researchers, led by Brigitte J.C. Claessens of Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in the Netherlands, found that less-important tasks were somewhat more likely to be completed than more-important tasks. |
| Source: Things to Do Today...: A Daily Diary Study on Task Completion at Work |
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