Timely advice for getting a grip on information overload in the workplace....
This groundbreaking book reveals how different kinds of information overload impact workers and businesses as a whole. It helps businesses get a grip on the financial and human costs of email overload and interruptions and details how working in an information overloaded environment impacts employee productivity, efficiency, and morale. This book:
- Explains how information - often in the form of email messages, reports, news, websites, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, instant messages, text messages, Twitter, and video conferencing walls - bombards and dulls our senses
- Explores what we do with information
- Documents how we created more and more information over centuries
- Reveals what all this information is doing
Timely and thought-provoking, Overload! addresses the reality of - and solutions for - a problem to which no one is immune.