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Article: A productive experience.
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- Information Age (London, UK)
- Article date:
- September 10, 2005
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Whisper it quietly: the reputation of IT as an engine of organisational productivity is being called into question. Some are even suggesting that far from making workers more productive, technology is dampening their intelligence.
Clinical trials at King's College, London, funded by HP, have revealed that a serious addiction to email lowers IQ by more than twice as much as smoking marijuana regularly. At the same time, some psychiatrists maintain that the stream of constant interruptions to the workday from applications such as email and instant messaging is, in some cases, inducing attention deficit disorder.
Against that backdrop, the company that has ...