Paul Taylor

  • Are We Really Becoming More Distracted At Work?

    Rather than blame technology we should accept that we over-value noise and activity, and under-value silence and contemplation.

    Paul Taylor

  • The Way We Work Isn’t Working

    The office, after management, is arguably the biggest inefficiency tax that organisations layer over themselves. They cost huge amounts to procure and maintain, they become an all too convenient base for meetings (another inefficiency tax), and they set a precedent for the expected hours that people are meant to work. Offices promote lengthy commuting which…

    Paul Taylor

  • Continuous Partial Attention: Designing A Less Distracted Future Of Work

    Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts—the faster, the better – Nicholas Carr , The Shallows You’d have thought we’d have given up on the physical office by now.…

    Paul Taylor

  • How The 9-5 Saps Our Creativity and Harms Our Productivity

    From ten to eleven, have breakfast for seven; From eleven to noon, think you’ve come too soon; From twelve to one, think what’s to be done; From one to two, find nothing to do; From two to three, think it will be; A very great bore to stay till four. – A Day At The…

    Paul Taylor

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