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Many businesses deliver services or projects for their clients which often follow a similar flow. Projects of this nature can encompass a wide variety of procedures or services such as web design projects, marketing campaigns, or onboarding procedures. Let’s take the example of a design project. The standard procedure is similar each time with tasks that include things like wireframes, mocks, prototypes. No matter the web design project, it probably includes these tasks.
Have you ever been in the middle of a task when a chat message, buzzing phone, meeting invitation or news alert broke your flow? It’s hard to get going again after a distraction. And that’s more concerning than it might seem at first. Most people come up against between 31.6 and 60 distractions in a day. Each distraction pulls our attention away for 5 to 25 minutes, which can quickly add up to an astronomical amount of unnecessary time wasted.
Running a business today is a tough gig. It’s fair to say that the combination of two global economic catastrophes in two decades, rising inflation, increasing competition and widespread employee disengagement has business leaders looking for ways to manage costs. But there’s growing evidence that shows cost-cutting is bad for productivity.