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Harvard Business Review has an article titled “Death by INFORMATION OVERLOAD” in their September edition written by Paul Hemp. He writes, “A study by Microsoft researchers tracking the e-mail habits of coworkers found that once their work had been interrupted by an e-mail notification, people took, on average, 24 minutes to return to the suspended task…People often used the interuption as an opportunity to read other unopened e-mail messages- or to engage in such unrelated activities as text-messaging a friend or surfing the web.”