IDEA #50
Online procrastination – the key to higher productivity
Web surfing can serve as a powerful mental restorative function and lead to increased productivity in workers … so long as they don’t check their emails.
What you need to know
In 2011 Vivien K.G. Lim and Don J.Q. Chen of the National University of Singapore undertook a study of 96 undergraduate management students to assess the impact of web surfing on their productivity. Initially, 96 students spent 20 minutes highlighting all the letter ‘e’s that they could spot in a document. The students were then grouped into three sets. The first group (control group) spent ten minutes ...
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