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According to Microsoft's recent report, 9-to-5 employees are interrupted every two minutes by meetings, emails and other pings.
Pick & Scroll News
May 27, 2025
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Good morning. According to Microsoft’s recent report, 9-to-5 employees are interrupted every two minutes by meetings, emails and other pings.
If you include the Whatsapp group chat, it's impressive people get any work done at all.
All the headlines and more below...
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