Whether you’re working from home, your favorite coffee shop, or in a bustling office, distractions have become a familiar fixture of the modern workplace. In some cases, specifically for creative tasks, distractions can be a good thing. That may sound counterintuitive but distractions can help us get out of a rut known as cognitive fixation. We also have an internal urge to be distracted.
However, considering that we get interrupted every 11 minutes and it takes 25 minutes for our brains to refocus on the original task — workplace distractions should be avoided as much as possible.
