Improving your focus at work is essential to meeting deadlines and completing tasks correctly. Unfortunately, with the invention of mobile technology and on-demand information, our attention spans are dwindling. According to a 2015 Microsoft study, the average human has an eight-second attention span. This number has decreased due to our increasing reliance on digital technology, […]

We live in an age of distraction and information overload. McCormack’s Brief Lab conducted research that found that 75 percent of professionals tune out of a presentation within the first minute, and they stop reading an email after the first 30 seconds. Other research indicates that the average attention span is only eight seconds long, […]