Ok you may have already seen this, Stress with Overload......but here it is again...and guess what, your doctor might be just as stressed and overloaded...just look at the paperwork he has to contend with for health care insurers for one...
Younger folks don't appear to have this issue according to the study, but again they were brought up with computers and the baby boomers have some catching up to do...and look at Intel restructuring their work habits...if the big boys are making changes...it's something we all need to address and find solutions for...it can be done with a small learning curve and a bit of automation. Why do 3 separate spreadsheets when they could all be covered by one Share Point server with a portal....as a simple example....software systems such as CRM software and business intelligence will take some of the stress away by automating much of the manual processes being done in businesses today and create a much less stressful atmosphere when those manual reporting duties are automated and the search is taken down to a couple clicks of the mouse. Technology brings on information overload, but it can also be a cure with proper software implementation and use. BD
Basex, which researches knowledge economy issues, calls "information overload" its 2008
problem of the year. Constant interruptions reportedly cost America $650 billion in lost productivity each year.
That's according to research firm Basex, which chose "information overload" as its 2008 "Problem of the Year." Failure to solve the problem will lead to "reduced productivity and throttled innovation." The situation is dire enough that Intel's Nathan Zeldes estimates "the impact of information overload on each knowledge worker at up to eight hours a week." Intel, a company with 94,000 employees, views the problem as serious. At Intel we estimated the impact of information overload on each knowledge worker at up to eight hours a week," says Nathan Zeldes, a Principal Engineer focusing on computing productivity issues at Intel. "We are now looking at applying new work behaviors that can help reduce this impact".
But young people don't seem to have (yet, anyway) developed the same sense of aggravation toward technology that forces them to multitask. Many choose to do so, in fact. The Kaiser Family Foundation found in a study this year that most junior high and high school students train themselves early in the dark arts of multitasking, with most listening to music or watching TV while they read books or surf the Internet. 30 percent of students even multitask while doing their homework.
On the other hand, multitasking might well produce some benefits; answering queries quickly and jumping to urgent tasks may not be the best strategy for completing long-term work, but it might get breaking items out of the inbox faster. For companies that thrive on pumping out cutting-edge, timely information, information overload and its attendant multitasking requirements could prove to be a competitive necessity.
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