A typical office day can hand you an excessive amount of information for you to process. In other words, information overload affects employees at a personal level, departments and the company or organisation as a whole. Bertram Gross, a Professor of Political Science in 1964 published: “Information overload occurs when the amount of input to a system exceeds its processing capacity. Consequently, when information overload occurs, it is likely that a reduction in decision quality will occur.” As employees continue to swim in information, it is becoming harder to sieve what is relevant from what is misleading and irrelevant. And who knows, once you educate your colleagues about it, you may actually turn to a reduced burden of information.One way organisations can tackle information overload is by working to contain it.

Source: Standard Digital August 23, 2020 05:03 UTC