Workplace interruptions: How to avoid them and boost your performance

Those in office jobs face the challenge that their working days are increasingly dissected. And, after each interruption, the brain needs time to reorganise and again concentrate on the actual task at hand. Photo: dpa

Do you remember your last truly productive working day? Or is your daily work routine one of hectically jumping back-and-forth between unanswered e-mails to never-ending chat messages and staff meetings?

Particularly those in office jobs face the challenge that their working days are increasingly dissected. And, after each interruption, the brain needs time to reorganise and again concentrate on the actual task at hand.