Most people don’t need to go too far into their day before they’re staring into a screen. 2 out of 3 people report checking email within the first 30 minutes of waking up. When looking for solutions, there are 3 ideas that come up frequently. Muting notifications from apps, turning your phone’s display to grayscale or finally trading your smartphone for a feature-less (or dumb) phone. In this article we compare the pros and cons of each approach.
Read MoreCompanies are normalizing at 3 days in the office. So now, not only are you spending time commuting – your phone enables you to work outside of “in-the-office” hours responding to e-mail and IMs. From the grocery line, while driving, or after putting the kids to bed. This digital debt, if unmanaged, is a sure way to burnout. And that’s bad for you and costly for your company.
Read MoreShould screentime be managed the same as smoking? Or are seatbelts in a car a better analogy? The digital transformation of our lives have left us checking emails more than 80 times a day and spending more time on our devices than with each other. We’re trapped in an epidemic of loneliness at home and burnout at work — and yet, the only tools we have are constraints based and limited. It’s time to think outside the box and solve the root cause not the symptoms.
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