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5 Time-Proven Ways to Overcome Stress and Strain in the Workplace
Ding. Ding. Ding. 🔔 🔔 🔔
Another smartphone notification announcing the arrival of more information… They just keep coming.
It’s not surprising, considering that over a quarter of US workers use 11 or more apps every day and 41% of workers spend an average of 1 or more hours per day looking for information. Add the 100 or so emails we receive daily and it’s easy to see why we are so completely overwhelmed, why it is impossible to think clearly, to make good decisions, and to get work done.
The implications are actually far worse, with studies showing that information overload leads to fatigue and stress, ultimately degrading our relationships and personal wellbeing.
We live in an unprecedented time of overload; never in history have people felt so overloaded… or have we?
You might be surprised to learn that feeling of being lost with so much information is nothing new. In fact, these periods have recurred periodically throughout history. The advent of the printing press, the telegraph, the penny press, television, and the Internet all led to massive overload. (See The Social Media Revolution: Is It Really Different this…
