There have long been suspicions that a fair amount of unproductive activity occurs in workplaces under the well-meaning but often flawed guise of collaboration. Now we have surveys and studies to support that.
It isn’t just meetings that get in the way of productivity. Having been away from the collegiate surroundings of office spaces for so long, some of us may have forgotten the stream of constant interruptions and the aggregate of time needed to refocus on the task at hand.
