Infomania & the IT Department’s Role

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We have all heard of computer viruses but what about Internet diseases?

One such disease is known as “infomania” and it’s hitting company’s bottom lines.



Matterhorn Business Solutions has been consulting on computer productivity for years at several Calgary companies. Here is our take on infomania.



What is infomania?

Infomania is the urge to check for information on the Internet, such as email, Facebook, Whatsapp, etc., so often that it disrupts your daily course of activities.



If you regularly get interrupted by messages and notifications, then you won’t be able to concentrate on your work. Interruptions will drain your productivity.

Infomania will kill your productivity.



A study conducted by Basex Inc. in 2005 finds that US companies lose an estimated $588 billion every year due to these interruptions.



If you check for notifications during a conversation, the other person will think that you’re not interested in the conversation or that you don’t value him/her.

Infomania will disrupt your social life.



So, how do you control this infomania?



If you have infomania, don’t worry because you’re not alone. A majority of the Internet users are suffering from infomania.

The following tips can help you solve this problem.



1. You have to realize that infomania is a problem. If you think this is normal, the issue can’t be fixed.



2. Try to live more in the real world, because the real world is MUCH better than the virtual world.



3. Develop a habit of checking the Internet only a few times during the day. Distract yourself whenever you feel the urge to check for updates.



After a while, the urge will automatically vanish. This process may be hard, but over time it will become easy.



4. If work emails are reducing productivity, management may need to decide that employees can only check emails once every 30 minutes.



A cloud-based team collaboration tool such as Slack often acts as a time saver. Operating on Slack will stop spam and reduce emails by creating easy to follow team discussions.



These are just a few suggestions when trying to cure infomania.



Keep in mind that infomania is not a major disease, it’s very common and can easily be fixed.

Don’t get scared by the name.


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