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5 reasons employee productivity’s about to hit a low point

March 18, 2016

Today’s forecast: The perfect storm of employee distractions.

Let’s run down the list of what’s got employees’ attention at this very moment (in no particular order):

March Madness (perhaps you’ve heard from this week’s Special Report that it’s a $4 billion productivity drain)

The 2016 Presidential Election (and the 24/7 media coverage of Trumpisms)

Social media (i.e., Facebook and Twitter, mostly)

NFL free agency (perhaps you’ve heard that Brock Osweiler spurned the Super Bowl champs for $72M and the Houston Texans), and

The rise of Spring (and the need to wrangle up a foursome and hit the links).

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