Overload!

Timely advice for getting a grip on information overload in the workplace....

This groundbreaking book reveals how different kinds of information overload impact workers and businesses as a whole. It helps businesses get a grip on the financial and human costs of email overload and interruptions and details how working in an information overloaded environment impacts employee productivity, efficiency, and morale. This book:

Explains how information—often in the form of email messages, reports, news, websites, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, instant messages, text messages, Twitter, and video conferencing walls—bombards and dulls our senses
Explores what we do with information
Documents how we created more and more information over centuries
Reveals what all this information is doing
Timely and thought-provoking, Overload! addresses the reality of—and solutions for—a problem to which no one is immune.