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Technology only adds to your stress
Smartphones, tablet computers and other digital devices are a mixed blessing. Having portable data can be useful when you are working off-site but these devices also blur the boundaries between home...
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Multi-tasking makes you stupider than smoking pot
60 years ago Carlson carried out the first empirical study of what managers actually do but it was another 20 years before Henry Mintzberg’s study of Chief Executives, published as: “The Nature of...
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Too many e-mails plus bad management stressing out staff
Professor Sir Cary Cooper has hit out at the avalanche of e-mails most workers now suffer from at work. In a speech at the British Psychology Conference in Liverpool he said UK productivity was the...
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Multi-tasking in Meetings never a good idea
You might think you are good at multi-tasking (you’d be wrong by the way) and probably don’t think of the effect it has on your colleagues. Researchers at Harvard found that checking your phone,...
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Is it really goodbye e?
People have been predicting the end of e-mail for a while with some companies preferring staff to use social media apps instead (which seem like jumping from the frying pan into the fire to me)....
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Dumbing down that smartphone
ulearn2bu Have we reached smartphone-peak? Have we finally realised we need to unplug ourselves from endless apps and social media connections? No more anxiety from FOMO or FOBO? The NoPhone might...
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Should we dumb down our smartphones to stop us becoming more stupid?
Mike the Psych's Blog Last September I asked on my other blog: Have we finally realised we need to unplug ourselves from endless apps and social media connections? I described the Light Phone and the...
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