How Offices Are Ruining Worker Productivity

According to Jason Fried, co-founder and president of 37 Signals, M&M's (managers and meetings) at the office are ruining work productivity. Fried says the majority of employees are being interrupted by various unintended distractions (managers and meetings being two of the more prevalent distractions), making the "work day" into a series of segmented "work moments.

According to Jason Fried, co-founder and president of 37 Signals, M&M's (managers and meetings) at the office are ruining work productivity. Fried says the majority of employees are being interrupted by various unintended distractions (managers and meetings being two of the more prevalent distractions), making the "work day" into a series of segmented "work moments." So how do office managers fix this problem?

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