Transcript of a 2016 live chat on tips for productivity on The Guardian
Does your mind wander easily at work? Do you find yourself losing half an hour to social media every time you check your phone?
Is it hard to concentrate when there’s office chitchat going on behind you or you’re included a lengthy email chain that doesn’t seem to be ending and has gone off the point? With so many distractions – 78% of people cited replying to email as one of their biggest time wasters – it’s no surprise our productivity seems to falling despite the longer hours we now work.
Panel Contributor: Magdalena Bak-Maier is a neuroscientist and productivity coach devoted to helping everyone make time count. Author of Get Productive! and Get Productive Grid, she is the go-to person when it comes to science informed, proven approaches to productivity. Follow her on Twitter @maketimecountuk
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Read the full Q&A transcript in the comments of this article on the The Guardian website.
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