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799 By a new Microsoft tally, a worker is interrupted every two minutes of the working day — around 275 times — as after-hours pings and meetings past eight in the evening keep climbing, blurring the line between work and rest

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 07/09/2026 18:00 EDT

By a new Microsoft tally, a worker is interrupted every two minutes of the working day — around 275 times — as after-hours pings and meetings past eight in the evening keep climbing, blurring the line between work and rest

One number from Microsoft’s June report spread fast: 275. That is how many times, on average, a worker gets interrupted in a day by a meeting, an email, or a chat notification. Spread across normal work hours, that works out to an interruption roughly every two minutes. The figure came from Microsoft’s WorkLab, which published ... Read more

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