Approximately zero most of the time - and potentially hours of productive work. I really like this comic for it's accuracy and I've shared it with a few project managers at work so that they'd leave me alone.
A 10 second interruption is enough for me to lose 10 minutes of my time. Have twenty 10 second interruptions in the day and I've lost over 3 hours of productive time. Interrupt an entire team who potentially lose 10 minutes for that 10 second interruption and across a team of 10 people you've potentially lost 30 hours of productive time.
Less meaningless distractions is better.
Would you enjoy a book if I interrupted you every 3rd page for 15 seconds?
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Approximately zero most of the time - and potentially hours of productive work. I really like this comic for it's accuracy and I've shared it with a few project managers at work so that they'd leave me alone.
https://i.imgur.com/3uyRWGJ.jpg
A 10 second interruption is enough for me to lose 10 minutes of my time. Have twenty 10 second interruptions in the day and I've lost over 3 hours of productive time. Interrupt an entire team who potentially lose 10 minutes for that 10 second interruption and across a team of 10 people you've potentially lost 30 hours of productive time.
Less meaningless distractions is better.
Would you enjoy a book if I interrupted you every 3rd page for 15 seconds?
I love that comic. It is so dead on.
I get your point, but this "Have twenty 10 second interruptions in the day and I've lost over 3 hours of productive time" is ridiculous.
Yes, interruptions are exactly that - interruptions. No, a 2 second message accidentally sent to the entire team should not be the end of the world.