I spent 3 years researching how phones impact productivity:

Spoiler alert: It's ugly.

The 7 facts (average use):

1️⃣ 4 hours and 48 minutes of daily phone checks
2️⃣ 7 hours of daily screen time for Gen Z
3️⃣ 58 times per day of phone checks (sometimes up to 144 times per day)
4️⃣ 52% of phone checks occur during work hours
5️⃣ 50% of phone screen sessions start within 3 minutes of the last
6️⃣ 1 minute 15 seconds of phone check duration
7️⃣ 23 minutes to fully regain concentration after usage

The costs:

• Decreases attention and cognitive processing speed\
• Ruins productivity both at work and in your free time\
• Multitasking with phones hurts efficiency and output quality\
• Comes with sleep deficits, lower concentration, and anxiety\
• Leads to eye strain and neck or back pain\
• Increases stress, loneliness, and impaired social relationships

The painful truth:

❌ 5 hours daily = 13.74 years of your life
❌ 7 hours daily = 19.20 years of your life

TLDR? 25% productivity loss from fragmented attention.

Phones obliterate us.