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Top 10 office distractions - and how to beat them

Top 10 office distractions - and how to beat them

The top ways to beat office distractions (and the percent that agreed they would help):

Having less pointless meetings (24%)

There’s nothing worse than being dragged into a boring meeting that you contribute nothing to when you could be cracking on with your essential tasks. Try to ensure meetings only have the essential team members present, and let people leave them if the parts relevant to them are over.

A better office environment (19%)

If you can find ways to keep your employees cool, and prevent noise from bouncing around the whole office, then your employees will find it easier to stay on-task.

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