Your phone is killing your ability to focus at work — even if you think it isn't
For the study, the researchers asked hundreds of people to work on two different cognitive tasks. Sometimes people were asked to leave their phones on the desk; sometimes in their pocket or bag; sometimes in another room. In all cases, sounds and vibrations were turned off.
Results showed that people performed best on the tasks when their phones were in another room. Even when participants were asked to turn their phones' power off, they still performed better when their phones were out of sight.
Yet when the researchers asked participants later whether the location of their phone had affected their performance, most said it hadn't. That suggests our phones are influencing our behavior in ways we might not even be consciously aware of....
