The “Ezra Klein Show,” a popular New York Times podcast, started off 2024 with an interview with UCI’s Gloria Mark, a professor emeritus of informatics, about her book Attention Span. In the conversation, Mark cites studies showing that, whereas most Americans in the 1960s through the 1980s spent roughly 30% of their day at their work desks, today, despite technological advances that supposedly make work more efficient, most workers spend 90% of their workday in front of a computer screen. “So, on the one hand, we might think it’s more efficient,” says Mark. “But there’s a cost to it. And the cost is our well-being. The cost is stress.” You can read a transcript of the interview or listen to the entire conversation.
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