This is a very interesting article about how people are "distracted" at work.
Yes the usual suspects, phone calls, texting, IMing etc. but... this one really stood out;
It would seem to me that this information should be of use for the folks who are involved with marketing Linux, Kubuntu, to businesses, Nepomuk, Strigi, and instead of multiple monitors, hmmm compiz cube.. or Unity desktops?
The problem, of course, is to find someone who has actually been involved in business and can do "business speak" or involved in education and can do "education speak" and has been involved in preparing brochures, or making websites, or publishing books or videos or sitting across a desk from a CEO and not acting as if he or she is smarter than the CEO.
Several, or many, of the above are NOT characteristics of many of the Linux community and that is sad.
Although "Linux" always trots out the mantra of "free" except for "support" when pitching Linux business solutions, the marketing strategy does not seem to have worked very well.
Maybe a shift to "increased productivity" (which is, of course, reducing costs but the emphasis is on the "sssylllabbllle".
) with this kind of info and a demonstration of software might help a little.
of course.....if the businesses taught the people how to put MEANINGFUL tags on their info that might help also!
http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com...loyees-survey/
woodsmoke
Yes the usual suspects, phone calls, texting, IMing etc. but... this one really stood out;
David Lavenda, vice president of Marketing and Product Strategy for harmon.ie, said he was surprised to find that employees waste a ton of time searching for work documents on their computers. Respondents said they spend an average of 2.5 hours a week trying to find the documents they need in multiple locations—corporate and cloud. This is an average of 16 work days each year—enough to account for an employee's vacation time.
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Having multiple devices at one's desk contributes to the issue of being distracted—65% of respondents said they utilize up to three additional monitors, sometimes simultaneously with their main computer screen when they work.
"People are just being pushed to the limit for how long they can be interrupted," Lavenda said. "There is a feeling that we are always being inundated with information."
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Having multiple devices at one's desk contributes to the issue of being distracted—65% of respondents said they utilize up to three additional monitors, sometimes simultaneously with their main computer screen when they work.
"People are just being pushed to the limit for how long they can be interrupted," Lavenda said. "There is a feeling that we are always being inundated with information."
The problem, of course, is to find someone who has actually been involved in business and can do "business speak" or involved in education and can do "education speak" and has been involved in preparing brochures, or making websites, or publishing books or videos or sitting across a desk from a CEO and not acting as if he or she is smarter than the CEO.
Several, or many, of the above are NOT characteristics of many of the Linux community and that is sad.
Although "Linux" always trots out the mantra of "free" except for "support" when pitching Linux business solutions, the marketing strategy does not seem to have worked very well.
Maybe a shift to "increased productivity" (which is, of course, reducing costs but the emphasis is on the "sssylllabbllle".
) with this kind of info and a demonstration of software might help a little.of course.....if the businesses taught the people how to put MEANINGFUL tags on their info that might help also!
http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com...loyees-survey/
woodsmoke
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