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In order to move from one task to another, we must effectively tell ourselves, “I want to do this now instead of that.” This process is known as “goal shifting” or “task shifting.” It creates something called “switching time,” which is the increment of time it takes us to move from one source of focus to another.
Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy • The Way We're Working Isn't Working
schedule employees for the same shift every week, provide at least 20 hours of work for a core group of staff, and allow employees to trade hours by using Shift Messenger, an app specifically designed for this purpose.17 The result? Compared with stores that did not participate in the ten-month experiment, labor productivity increased by 6.8 percen
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