8 Proven Ways to Stay Focused in A Busy Office. It can be hard to stay focused in a busy office. Not to mention your coworkers coming up to you to ask about your job. Before we discuss how to keep yourself on task, you might be wondering what people are doing all day if they aren’t working. Enforce quiet time for a few hours a day to give everyone the chance to listen to Jerry’s heavy breathing. In an effort to not cut into your work time, make your renovations at night when everyone else has gone home for the day. Clients and coworkers will ask you to complete other high priority tasks that they need RIGHT THIS MINUTE PLEASE. The point is, for a few moments while writing out your list you will feel in charge of your life. Take a few minutes at the end of each day to clean your desk just so and to put things back where they belong. If they are moved the next morning, you know Susan has been messing with your things and she had better stop calling you paranoid.
It can be hard to stay focused in a busy office. There’s always something going on–meetings, conversations, or donuts to eat in the kitchen. Not to mention your coworkers coming up to you to ask about your job. The nerve people have! Fortunately, you don’t actually have to be available to your coworkers all the time. There are proven ways to keep yourself on task while keeping others away from you at the same time.
You’re not wrong if you think you might be spending a bit too much time on non work related tasks. A study found 89% of employees admit to wasting time at work, and of those, 2% waste 5 hours a day. There’s a chance there’s a guy hanging around your office getting paid to pretend to work.
Before we discuss how to keep yourself on task, you might be wondering what people are doing all day if they aren’t working. The study also uncovered that:
- A married employee was looking at a dating web site and then denied it while it was still up on his computer screen
- An employee was caring for her pet bird that she smuggled into work
- An employee was shaving her legs in the women’s restroom
- An employee was laying under boxes to scare people
- Employees were having a wrestling match
- A sleeping employee claimed he was praying
- An employee was changing clothes in a cubicle
- An employee was printing off a book from the Internet
- An employee was warming her bare feet under the bathroom hand dryer
So, in an effort to protect you from yourself and those around you, here are some ways to stay focused.
1) Put On Headphones
Headphones tell the world, I am too busy for other people’s noise. Become visibly annoyed if anyone requests you remove them. Bonus points if you play them loudly enough that it sounds like your…
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