Nir EyalSpeaker on Behavioral Science, NYT Bestselling Author, Former Stanford Lecturer

Managers, Stop Distracting Your Employees #shorts

Name: Managers, Stop Distracting Your Employees #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-07-05T15:00:02+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Nir Eyal
Description: Nir Eyal argues that workplace distraction is often misattributed to technology (pings, dings, rings). He frames these interruptions as symptoms rather…

5 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Nir Eyal argues that workplace distraction is often misattributed to technology (pings, dings, rings). He frames these interruptions as symptoms rather than root causes: the real problem is that employees cannot openly discuss distraction or ask for changes (e.g., to checking Slack or email). He warns that an inability to raise this issue signals broader communication and organizational problems.

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This is the most important point of the article that as much as we blame our tech devices, all the pings, dings and rings, it's very easy to blame the devices and say, ah, that's why we're all distracted at work. That is a symptom, not the cause of the illness. The real cause of the illness is that we can't talk about the problem of distraction at work, right? If you can't raise your hand and say, hey, this isn't working for me, like the fact that I constantly feel like I need to check slack or email every 30 seconds, I can't get my work done. If you can't raise your hand and say, hey, this is a problem, can we talk about this problem? That is the problem. And I guarantee you, if you can't talk about this problem of distraction at work, there's all kinds of other problems at work as well.