Citing the smorgasbord of software needed to do any task these days, Hope King uses terms like toggling tax and digital dexterity to explain how tech advancements have come at mental and sometimes emotional costs along with declining productivity among knowledge workers.
Source: AXIOS, November 7, 2022. Link. One Harvard Business Review study suggests workers are switching from app to app, website to website, nearly 1,200 times a day . . . which amounts to a total of 9% of their annual time at work.
The number of applications needed now to do any one job can make it feel like we’re working multiple jobs at the same time.”