Stop interrupting every two minutes

Improve productivity It is one of the biggest concerns of companies. However, a Microsoft study He has revealed that the main ballast for this productivity improvement is the bosses themselves and co -workers who They do not stop interrupting one another.

The data suggests that not even those who are remote manage to get rid of that scourge that prevents employees concentrate on your work. 80% of employees acknowledge feeling exhausted because of the amount of interruptions suffered throughout the day.

Silent exhaustion in the office. The Labor fatigue Not only is it due to the fulfillment of the working days, but also an invisible but constant phenomenon is added: interruptions. Each notification, message or consultation that is received from a partner is undermining the Capacity for concentrationthat in itself It is not in your best dimensions.

The known as “Ping fatigue“Prevents that both the productivity of remote workers and those who are in person in the office can be increased, as they expect 53% of the leaders and managers surveyed for the Work Trend Index 2025 Report of Microsoft, which collects information from 31,000 employees and managers from 30 countries.

275 interruptions per day. According to the data collected by Microsoft, each employee receives an average of 275 interruptions per day at work. Those interruptions that They fight for your attention They include from emails, messages from the corporate messaging platform, meetings or consultations of other colleagues in face -to -face work models.

This means that approximately, the workflow is stopped every two minutes to answer a question, address a notification or attend an urgent un programmed meeting. Taking into account that the brain needs between 10 and 20 minutes to re -reach the optimal level of concentration, it makes it impossible for an employee to even pretend to be productive. However.

Not advance. The constant interruptions not only affect concentration, but also generate a feeling of chaos and disorganization that does not help to be productive. Employees are forced to change task continuously, which hinders the completion of important projects and increases the feeling of stress and exhaustion caused by multitasking and the constant objective changes.

48% of employees and 52% of managers who have participated in the Microsoft survey claim that their workload is chaotic and fragmented.

Meetings do not help. The data reveal that meetings beyond eight In the afternoon, 16% year -on -year have increased, because people participate in different time slots in 30% of them.

However, the main chaos generator in organization of the days is that 60% of these meetings are not scheduled and convened improvisedly. Microsoft has detected that improvisation means that, in the 10 minutes prior to those last minute meetings, the use of PowerPoint grew by 122%. That is, employees had to leave what they were doing, to finish the presentations they had to use in the improvised meetings.

Microsoft’s solution: convert employees into bosses. Microsoft’s report points out that the arrival of AI agents Specialized will contribute to the reduction of these interruptions since it will be the agent himself who dissipates those doubts that the partner responded before. 82% of the managers of the companies that have responded to Microsoft ensure that digital labor is a priority for them in the next 12 to 18 months.

However, and despite the changes that AI promises to contribute to the labor market, there is something against which the agents of AI will not be able to fight: The improvised meetings at the last minute.

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