Americans Waste 2 Hours Daily on Phones, Here’s What’s Stealing Their Focus!

Clarify Capital conducted a survey to find out what are the top distractions on phones for people during work hours. 1,000 employed Americans were surveyed and it was found that 3 in 4 respondents spend an average 2 hours a day working from their phones. 65% of the workers said that the top phone distraction during work hours is sending text messages while 53% said that it's browsing social media. 45% of the respondents said that they get distracted by browsing the internet for non-work-related content during work. Other phone distractions by the respondents were listening to music/podcast (44%) and making personal calls (42%).

Respondents were also asked what social media apps are the most distracting at work, and 32% named Facebook as the most distracting app. Other distracting social media apps for respondents during work were Instagram (32%), YouTube (27%), Reddit (27%) and TikTok (23%). The survey also found that 1 in 4 Americans get distracted by personal notifications at work, with iPhone users being 10% more likely to get distracted.

The survey also asked respondents what strategies they apply to manage their notification distractions during work hours. Most of the respondents (43%) said that they turn off their notifications to silent or vibrate mode. 33% use Focus Mode/Do Not Disturb mode while 32% turn off their notifications for specific apps. 25% said that they have started checking their notifications only at specific hours while 13% said that they yage scheduled their focus periods where they just focus on work without phone use.

Take a look at the charts below for more insights:

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World