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Putting the smartphone away at work may not be sufficient to reduce disruption and procrastination, or increase focus. The problem is not rooted within the device itself, but in the habits and routines that we have developed with our devices
A researcher put physical distance between people and their phones and found that our devices may not be the cause of our distraction – it’s what we do with the
“The study shows that putting the smartphone away may not be sufficient to reduce disruption and procrastination, or increase focus,” said the paper’s author Dr Maxi Heitmayer, a researcher at the London School of Economics. “The things inside phones that are the biggest attention sinks are developed by large corporations who greatly profit from our failure to resist the temptation to use them; all of this is literally by design.” Unless otherwise noted, you can republish articles posted in the Frontiers news site — as long as you include a link back to the original research.
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