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According to research by Gloria Mark et al. at UC Irvine, a single interruption may require 15–25 minutes to recover one's working state.
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UnverifiedProfessor Gloria Mark of the University of California, Irvine found through experiments that knowledge workers are interrupted on average once every 11 minutes, and it takes an average of 23 minutes to recover from an interruption back to the original level of focus.75% similarUnverifiedResearch by Professor Gloria Mark of the University of California, Irvine found that office workers switch tasks on average every 3 minutes, and after each interruption it takes an average of approximately 23 minutes and 15 seconds to return to the same depth of focused concentration.75% similarUnverifiedResearch generally finds that after being interrupted, people typically need several minutes or even longer to re-enter a state of focus.72% similarVerifiedResearch by Gloria Mark of the University of California, Irvine shows that after each interruption it takes an average of more than 20 minutes to re-enter a state of deep focus71% similarUnverifiedOfficials said that once mitigation measures are in place, recent usage data may take about 30 minutes to display; before the full fix, usage data for the most recent approximately 30 minutes may be delayed even longer.70% similar
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