FUN FACTS
Your IQ falls 10 points when you're fielding constant emails, text messages, and calls, the same loss you'd experience if you missed an entire night's sleep and more than double the 4-point loss you'd have after smoking marijuana. On average men fared worse than women because, researchers say, men have more difficulty multitasking. YogaJournal, p. 22, 12/2005
Americans work an avg. of 45 hours per week, with sixteen of those hours labeled as unproductive. Microsoft Survey, March 15, 2005
Time and Stress
40% of American adults get less than 7 hours of sleep on weekdays, up from 34% in 2001. 60% of meals are rushed, and 34% of lunches are choked down on the run. To avoid wasting time, we're talking on our cell phones while rushing to work, answering e-mails during conference calls, waking up at 4 a.m. to call Europe, and generally multi-tasking our brains out. Business Week, p. 60, 10/3/2005
U.S. companies lose between $200-$300 billion a year due to absenteeism, tardiness, burnout, decreased productivity, worker's compensation claims, increased employee turnover, and medical insurance costs resulting from employee work-related stress. National Safety Council, Priority Magazine, 1-2/2007
Paper and Filing
1000 middle managers of large companies in the U.S. and U.K., 59% miss important information almost every day because it exists within the company but they cannot find it. Accenture, Wall Street Journal, 5/14/2007
15% of all paper handled in businesses is lost and 30 percent of all employees' time is spent trying to find lost documents. Jane M. Von Bergen (Knight Ridder Newspapers), The Boston Globe, 3/21/2006
Email and Internet
The average projected number of corporate emails sent and received per person, per day: 142 in 2007, 156 in 2008, 177 in 2009, 199 in 2010, 228 in 2011. By 2009, workers are expecting to spend 41% of their time in email management. Radicati Group, Palo Alto, 2007
15% of Americans say they are addicted to email. AOL & Opinion Research Corp., study 7/26/07
19% of all drivers text message while driving. 37% of those drivers are between the ages of 18 and 27. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., Christopher Cooper, Wall Street Journal 3/14/07
Organizing and Clutter
700,000 to 1.4 million Americans may have compulsive disorder syndrome--difficulty in throwing away anything for fear that they may need the items later. Self Storage Association: Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
Getting rid of excess clutter would eliminate 40% of housework in the avg. home. National Soap and Detergent Association
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