Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Read This and Cost Your Company Dough - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

An imprecise science, but interesting…

The question is not whether the nation is overwhelmed with checking e-mail and RSS feeds, answering calls, exchanging instant messages, surfing the Web, watching YouTube and playing that one game where you try to organize the falling blocks.

The question is how much money all of this costs.

Basex, a research firm, estimates in data published on Monday that information overload costs the economy $900 billion a year in lost productivity. And a new online calculator created by Basex professes to provide a rough estimate of the cost to individual companies.

Read This and Cost Your Company Dough - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

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