The $1 Trillion Focus Crisis Destroying Knowledge Work
We've created workplaces perfectly designed to prevent focus. Open offices, Slack notifications,
endless meetings, and digital chaos fragment attention into useless shards. Your highest-paid talent
spends 70% of their day in shallow work, unable to access the deep thinking that drives innovation.
A Typical "Productive" Hour
0-11 min
Actual focused work
11-14 min
Slack notification
14-37 min
Context switching
37-45 min
Email "quick check"
45-52 min
Trying to remember
11 minutes
of actual deep work in 60 minutes
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Slack/Teams
96
messages per day
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Email
121
emails per day
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Meetings
31
hours per week
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Phone Checks
144
times per day
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Browser Tabs
26
open average
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Notifications
63
per day