Overload! How Too Much Information is Hazardous to your Organization

By Jonathan B. Spira

Book Overview

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 e-mail overload and interruptions and details how working in an information overloaded environment impacts employee productivity, efficiency, and morale.

Explains how information?often in the form of e-mail messages, reports, news, Web sites, 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470879602
• ISBN13: 9780470879603
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"