Maggie Jackson ( Distracted ) writes, “One yearlong study found that workers not only switch tasks every three minutes during their workday but that nearly half the time they interrupt themselves.”
And this: “Nearly a third of fourteen- to twenty-one-year olds juggle five to eight media while doing homework.”
I interrupted my reading to jot this down on my blog, btw.
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