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24 Dec 08
raman srinivasanhe question is not whether the nation is overwhelmed with checking e-mail and RSS feeds, answering calls, exchanging instant messages, surfing the Web, watching YouTube and playing that one game where you try to organize the falling blocks.
The question is how much money all of this costs.
Basex, a research firm, estimates in data published on Monday that information overload costs the economy $900 billion a year in lost productivity. And a new online calculator created by Basex professes to provide a rough estimate of the cost to individual companies.
The calculator appears to be a bit gimmicky and simplistic. For instance, it generalizes about the potential productivity losses to companies based on just a handful of criteria, like what industry they are in, how many employees they have, and how skilled they are (highly skilled, manual labor, etc.).
At the same time, the Basex report underscores a serious subject that, as we reported earlier this year, companies like Intel and Microsoft are talking about. The problem isn’t so much that employees are goofing off by playing block-falling games, but that they are getting hit with a never-ending flow of information ranging from essential to irritating. -
23 Dec 08
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Lee Dryburghed with Intel, estimated that the average employee there loses about eight hours a week of productivity to the interruptions associated with trying to keep up with the data stream, and with stopping and starting activities because of data-drive in
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Basex, a research firm, estimates in data published on Monday that information overload costs the economy $900 billion a year in lost productivity. And a new online calculator created by Basex professes to provide a rough estimate of the cost to individual companies.
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Matt KramerRead This and Cost Your Company Dough
By Matt Richtel
The question is not whether the nation is overwhelmed with checking e-mail and RSS feeds, answering calls, exchanging instant messages, surfing the Web, watching YouTube and playing that one game where you try to organize the falling blocks.
The question is how much money all of this costs.
Basex, a research firm, estimates in data published on Monday that information overload costs the economy $900 billion a year in lost productivity. And a new online calculator created by Basex professes to provide a rough estimate of the cost to individual companies.
The calculator appears to be a bit gimmicky and simplistic. For instance, it generalizes about the potential productivity losses to companies based on just a handful of criteria, such as what industry they are in, how many employees they have, and how skilled they are (highly skilled, manual labor, etc.).
At the same time, the Basex report underscores a serious subject that, as we reported earlier this year, companies like Intel and Microsoft are talking about. The problem isn’t so much that employees are goofing off by playing block-falling games, but that they are getting hit with a never-ending flow of information ranging from essential to irritating.
In a press release, Basex, which has worked with Intel, estimated that the average employee there loses about eight hours a week of productivity to the interruptions associated with trying to keep up with the data stream, and with stopping and starting activities because of data-drive interruptions.
So how much productivity are you costing your company while e-mailing, surfing and sending instant messages? Waste a little time calculating the results.
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Mariko Hayashida国民がeメールチェックやRSSフィード、電話応対、IMのやりとり、ウェブサーフィン、YouTubeの閲覧、オンラインゲームをするのにいったいどれくらいのコストがかかっているのか？リサーチ会社のBasexは月曜日に公開したデータの中で、情報過多による生産性損失は年間に9000億ドルだと見積もっている。またBasexは個々の会社におけるだいたいのコストを見積もるオンライン計算機も作っている。この調査はIntelと共同で行われたが、Intelの平均的な従業員は、データストリームについていこうとすることや、データが起こす妨害で行動をやめたりはじめたりするという行為により1週間に約8時間の生産性をロスしているという。
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