Desks 'must be easy to approach' to sustain morale

Date: 28/08/2009

People may pay the price in terms of morale for not keeping on top of their workstation, with the situation possibly denting performance, it has been said.

Justin Cooke, the chairman of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), explained that the working environment in which most people operate in the modern world has been gradually shaped by new technology.

As a result, this major shift in knowledge has caused people to become overwhelmed by the number of different applications vying for the attention of the user.

He recommended: "Creating spaces that minimise distractions and the creation of quiet areas where employees can focus on one job at hand are all simple and highly effective measures for ensuring we can get the balance between multi-tasking and getting things done absolutely right."

The expert implied that communication would be improved between workers, perhaps facilitating team building conferences in the office.

The recommendations follow a new study by Stanford University, which appears to show that people who are regularly bombarded with different streams of electronically-mediated information could pay a high mental price for their desire to multi-task.

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