![]() ![]() It can take up to 25 minutes to get back on track after a distraction. If you’re not ready to block social media at work for good, at least turn off notifications and alerts – both on your laptop and phone. That is, even if you ignore your Facebook notification and keep your eyes on the task, your mind is already distracted and focused on the fact that there’s something happening, and your performance suffers. Social media and their notifications are extremely distractingĪ study by Florida State University suggested that receiving notifications is as distracting as responding to messages or answering phone calls. And it’s not just time that’s getting lost in the never-ending scrolling, it’s also your focus and motivation.ĭiscover your unproductive habits! Get started In my case, 10 to 13 hours a month might not sound that bad, however over the course of one year, that’s hundreds of hours. As a result, you’re kept entertained and you don’t even notice how much time you lose. Think about it: Facebook’s newsfeed is never-ending – as soon as you reach the bottom, more posts are loaded in to keep you scrolling. Social media platforms are built to make you spend more time on them. Now looking at the graph, the results don’t really surprise me. It’s followed by video streaming websites with 35% of unproductive time spent on YouTube and Netflix (yes, watching movies during work is a thing, apparently!) Shopping websites rank third with 3.8%. The data that was collected from over 17k users, revealed that social media is hands down the biggest time-waster at work.įrom the time spent on work-unrelated websites, social media takes up 49.1%. It turned out, I was far from being the only one who couldn’t handle social media at work. I asked my team at DeskTime to gather data about the biggest time wasters at work. People lose hours of working time on social media In comparison, I used to waste 10 to over 13 hours before. For the past half a year, I’ve spent on average 5 hours and 34 minutes a month on Facebook. Since the day I blocked the newsfeed on my laptop (in February 2017), the time I wasted on Facebook had decreased by almost 2 times. ![]() So, out of curiosity, I opened my productivity app again. Last week I found myself working overtime again and had a flashback to that day almost half a year ago. So I did what everyone would’ve done in my place: I blocked the newsfeed. That was also the month I spent every second day working overtime and feeling burned-out. ![]() That’s more than 40 minutes every working day spent browsing the newsfeed, checking random profiles and giving thumbs up to every new status update that came up. Until one month, after checking my time tracking data I realized that I had spent 13 hours and 21 minutes of my working hours on Facebook. I never saw Facebook as a harm to my productivity. ![]()
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