Working from home can feel like a blessing and a curse, especially when distractions seem to pop up every five minutes. Whether it’s your phone, the laundry pile, or even your own racing thoughts, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. Between constant interruptions, shifting priorities and ...

While I pride myself on being able to focus on my work, even though I work remotely, I'm not immune to getting distracted. From messaging notifications to inconvenient pop-ups, there are so many ...

Concentration is becoming a rare skill. Distractions scream for our attention everywhere. The average American checks their phone 205 times a day: Based on 16 waking hours, that’s once every 5 minutes ...

Here are six ways to avoid distractions in the workplace, according to a Monster report. • If you have a door, shut it. • Budget your time. • Put down your mobile device. • Consider a change of ...

Combinations of tools like Presence and training can go a long way to reducing the wasted time and lost productivity due to digital distractions. Getting work done with all the communications ...

Smart people avoid risk at work when experience tells them speaking up carries personal cost. Why encouragement fails and ...

Our lives are a continuous but complicated path to an endpoint we are trying to achieve. At various times we may have a "main quest," such as completing a project. Yet the goal of the main quest may ...