But according to my estimation the 64 second recovery time is about
17.58% of one's working day/week assuming the five-minute check in
cycle.  Even if you're only half as easily distracted you'd still lose
9.75% of your productivity which is probably more then most of us can
really afford to lose.  I'm only half a productive as I'd like to be
anyway but if you can train yourself to need only 16 seconds to recover
perhaps the 5 minute cycle can be justified.  I note that the model
doesn't seem to take into account the actual reading time or maybe the
64 seconds includes that. This whole thing does not bode well for the
listserv as one could make the case that there are a lot of 64 second
recovery breaks going on around the country leading to the decline and
fall of RM!

MS

PS don't get distracted after reading this!

-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Piotrowski, Charles
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 12:34 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [RM] OT: Email becomes a dangerous distraction

Jeffrey Wilson wrote "I can not see how checking your e-mail takes 1
minute and 4 seconds to recover your train of thought unless you are
already easily distracted."


I hope that was sarcasm!...How long did it take for you to write this
email and send it to the list after reading the initial post?

Of course, now I've just wasted 64 seconds! Yikes! Better get back on
that "train of thought"...while it may be 5 o'clock somewhere, it is not
here!

Happy weekend, everybody!


Chuck Piotrowski
Information Asset Management Program
CVPS
www.cvps.com
This computer runs on Cow Power!

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