{"id":9243,"date":"2011-03-11T17:53:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T17:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/destress_and_boost_productivity_with_less_notifications.html"},"modified":"2011-03-11T17:53:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T17:53:57","slug":"destress-and-boost-productivity-with-less-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/destress-and-boost-productivity-with-less-notifications.html","title":{"rendered":"Destress and Boost Productivity With Less Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/stress.jpg\" alt=\"stress.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/>If you are a knowledge worker, there is no doubt getting frequent notifications is a mixed blessing as you make sure you are on top of everything without having to search for what&#8217;s new. My friend in Sardinia, Luca Filigheddu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucafiligheddu.com\/2011\/03\/notifications-are-your-1-enemy.html\">explains<\/a> how much stress you can relieve by turning off all the notifications and in general I agree.<\/p>\n<p>I get an email every few moments it seems so I do not use email alerts but I do have alerts for some Twitter and Facebook functions as well as news alerts for a number of news apps on my devices. Perhaps I should turn them off &#8211; as they do get annoying and they show up on all my mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>The one certainty is as we keep installing more apps &#8211; the opportunity for us to turn on notifications increases and if we aren&#8217;t careful, we slowly decrease our productivity as interuptions are the enemy of concentration.<\/p>\n<p>Avaya&#8217;s Phil Edholm told me years back that your brain can adjust to <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/relax.jpg\" alt=\"relax.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"500\" \/>multitasking and excel at becoming interrupt-driven. In other words, ADHD can be induced. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"smiley-laughing\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/TinyMCE\/lib\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/img\/smiley-laughing.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smiley-laughing\" \/> But even though we seem to be able to cope with increasing message and interrupt frequency, it doesn&#8217;t mean we should strive for it.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the ideal situation is to pull messages during meals, coffee breaks and snacks. That way you aren&#8217;t too out of touch and you can also be productive.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to remember to change my status to &#8220;away&#8221; on all my IM clients. BTW I realize how ironic this post likely is from perhaps the biggest SIP evangelist on the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a knowledge worker, there is no doubt getting frequent notifications is a mixed blessing as you make sure you are on top of everything without having to search for what&#8217;s new. My friend in Sardinia, Luca Filigheddu explains how much stress you can relieve by turning off all the notifications and in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,171,161,196,188,206,118,217,177,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}