"It's too much information. It's too many interruptions. It's too much lost time," Basex chief analyst Jonathan Spira told [url=http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/T/TECHBIT_INFORMATION_OVERLOAD?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-12-26-10-12-23]Wired[/url]. "It's always too much of a good thing."
Information overload isn't new, but Spira said the problem has grown as technology increases societal expectations for instantaneous response. And more information available also means more time wasted looking for the right information, whether in an old e-mail or through a search engine, he told Wired.
Workers get disoriented every time they stop what they are doing to reply to an e-mail or answer a follow-up phone call because they didn't reply within minutes. Spira said workers can spend 10 to 20 times the length of the original interruption trying to get back on track.
