{"id":4738,"date":"2018-09-06T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2018-09-06T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:54:29","slug":"social-media-isnt-your-biggest-work-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/social-media-isnt-your-biggest-work-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Isn&#8217;t Your Biggest Work Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the allure of Facebook and Google and all of those Twitter notifications is real. But the majority of people see their colleagues as a bigger work distraction.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-nine percent of respondents in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/175-what-are-your-biggest-work-distractions\" target=\"_blank\">recent survey<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comparably<\/a>\u00a0say that their coworkers and bosses are their biggest distraction at work.\u00a0 The next biggest distractions were: social media\/Internet (25%), family (15%), personal finances (14%) and health (7%).<\/p>\n<p>More than 5,000\u00a0employees\u00a0across the technology industry participated in the survey.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4739 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/WORK.jpg\" alt=\"WORK\" width=\"709\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/WORK-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/WORK.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Men and women shared nearly equivalent views:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4746 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/WORK2-1.jpg\" alt=\"WORK2\" width=\"543\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/WORK2-1-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/WORK2-1.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 85vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Generation Z thinks differently<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers in every age group were in agreement about their selections except for Generation Z (ages 18 to 25), who ranked social media and the Internet as their No. 1 distraction.<\/p>\n<p>Executives also ranked their biggest distraction as social media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">18 to 25<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4742 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/1825.jpg\" alt=\"1825\" width=\"350\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/1825-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/1825.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Executive<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4741 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/EXEC.jpg\" alt=\"EXEC\" width=\"342\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/EXEC-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/EXEC.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 85vw, 342px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of Sept. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the allure of Facebook and Google and all of those Twitter notifications is real. But the majority of people see their colleagues as a bigger work distraction. Thirty-nine percent of respondents in a recent survey by Comparably\u00a0say that their coworkers and bosses are their biggest distraction at work.\u00a0 The next biggest distractions were: social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/social-media-isnt-your-biggest-work-distraction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[19,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4750,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions\/4750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}