The Rocketvox eCommunications Complexity Calculator

• This calculator shows you how, in our modern mobile society, keeping up with all the various forms of communication is actually killing our productivity.
• At the root of the calculations is the premise that interruptions caused by the myriad of different electronic communications devices and clients are more detrimental than was previously thought.
• In a study last year, Dr Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University, England, found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email. So people who check their email every five minutes waste 8.5 hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before.
  (Dr. Jackson's Research)
• So, if you stop working on one thing to take a call or respond to a text message and try to get back to your work afterwords, you actually lose 64 seconds twice in the process!