Good article in the NY Times about how technology companies are starting to deal with the loss of productivity from too much technology – e-mail, cellphones and instant messaging – being the biggest distractions.
Some of the biggest technology firms, including Microsoft, Intel, Google and IBM, are banding together to fight information overload. Last week they formed a nonprofit group to study the problem, publicize it and devise ways to help workers €” theirs and others €” cope with the digital deluge.
Here’s the NYT article.
