522: Increasing Construction Company Profitability Through Better Practices

<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style= "color: #0000ff;"><strong>This Podcast Is Episode Number 522, And It's About Increasing Construction Company Profitability Through Better Practices</strong></span></h1> <p>If you feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of technological gadgets, never mind apps and other digital "solutions,"; you're not alone. Technology sprawl and the rabbit hole of more and more information available all the time makes productivity—and healthy downtime—a real challenge for many of us.<br /> <br /> Although we may be quicker at completing redundant tasks, more time is wasted managing all our different apps and technologies—and more of us live in a near-constant state of distraction.<br /> <br /> <strong>An epidemic of distracted workers</strong><br /> <br /> Maintaining focus on the job is increasingly difficult in the era of social media, chat apps, games, and the ability to search for anything at any time—whether related to the task at hand or not.</p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Recent research shows that, on average, office workers switch between tasks roughly every three minutes. Half of those "task switches" were not because the phone rang or someone stopped by with a question—they were self-interruptions.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The same study showed that when an interruption is related to the primary task, it isn't a problem for the worker to maintain focus when the interruption ends. But when people have to "shift their cognitive resources" to a new task, it takes longer to remember where they were, refocus, and regain momentum.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">If your team isn't working across the same devices, platforms, and apps, imagine the increased inefficiency as workers spend more time dealing with incompatibility issues. For anyone moving between several decentralized apps during the workday, the cost is mental exhaustion—which can lead to an increased lack of focus and even less productivity.</span></p> <p style="font-w