Alexia Kambon

And it used to be your entry point was maybe a cup of coffee in the kitchen with your coworker or a nice little chat over the cubicle.

Email is our very first experience of the workday.

And that means something.

because I don't know about you, but email is not always that enjoyable an experience for me.

So if that's how I'm starting my day, it's kind of setting the tone, right?

We should go out and survey that 40% and ask them what are you reading and what is your level of engagement at work and see if there are any correlations we can draw from that for those who need the neuron.

Oh, gosh.

Yeah, well, so...

And what's really interesting as well is how we did this research was very much born out of our own personal experiences as a research team.

And so you said very kindly, Corey, that this was something you really felt you could relate to.

And I think that is a direct response to most of us on the research team sat down and chatted for ages before we did a deep dive into the data about what does work feel like.

today for us and can we then go and see if the data backs up that feeling and one of the feelings that was most commonly raised on my team was it feels really disrupted it feels really um full of interruptions and so that was one of the things we went and looked at was on average how many times a day or at a frequency scale our work is interrupted and we discovered that uh on average it's every two minutes

And that's just within the M365 suite, right?

That's the only data we have access to.

That's not taking into account if you have your WhatsApp open or your Spotify open or YouTube open or anything.

This is just within the M365 suite every two minutes.

And to me, the way I kind of thought about that was,

My gosh, try to explain today's workday to someone in the 1950s and imagine having to explain to them, oh, you're sitting in your office and a colleague is literally coming through your door every two minutes.

Like they would have thought we were crazy, right?

And that's what's happening to our brains.