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What’s Distracting Your Employees at Work?

You hire the best employees with high hopes that they will be focused, productive and consistently on task? You might be out of luck, according to a study by psychiatrist Dr. Ned Hallowell. The most intelligent people are easily distracted at work.

So what is causing the workforce to become more distracted? And how often are the intelligent people getting their attention torn away from their work?

Monster.com recently surveyed 10,000 workers in 17 different countries to find out just how distracted people are. The results? Employees are distracted once every three minutes on average.

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