E-mail distraction at work is a big problem with employees at most companies. Even the most industrious workers occasionally (or even not so occasionally) take a moment to e-mail friends about weekend plans, or check their Facebook pages, or any number of things. In the January 2009 issue of Women’s Health Magazine, writer Nicole Blades warned in her article Work Less, Do More that while some employees see chilling on the company clock as a worker's right, all those mental breaks and email distractions are costing you.

According to Kathleen Alessandro, president of Michigan consulting firm Energized Solutions, “E-mail pings, phone calls, blogs, IMs, texts, cubicle chitchat, and undefined meetings are taking an enormous chunk out of your plan for a productive day.” Alessandro estimates that the average worker unwittingly wastes about 5.6 hours a day, considering one intrusion occurs every seven minutes and lasts an average of five minutes (including the time it takes to remember what you were doing before the interruption). That adds up to 68 work distractions daily!

A division of the Singapore-based UNI Strategic Pte Ltd. has hosted corporate and training conferences and workshops for organizations all over the world, including many Fortune 500 companies. They attract top speakers for their well-attended events.

Numerous trainers and lecturers have reported problems with receiving payment from UNI Strategic. A while back, PBR went to Singapore to do a training program with them, titled Strategic Sales Leadership. This exciting international opportunity turned into a situation where it took us several months and endless contacts to Roger Tie, President and Pan Tei Boon, Conference Manager to get the payments we’d been promised. We soon discovered we weren’t the only ones who’d had a hard time collecting appearance fees from UNI Strategic. Several other instructors and facilitators shared their own stories with us about the snail-slow payment and shabby treatment they’d endured from www.unistrategic.com.

A division of the Singapore-based UNI Strategic Pte Ltd. has hosted corporate and training conferences and workshops for organizations all over the world, including many Fortune 500 companies. They attract top speakers for their well-attended events.

Numerous trainers and lecturers have reported problems with receiving payment from UNI Strategic. A while back, PBR went to Singapore to do a training program with them, titled Strategic Sales Leadership. This exciting international opportunity turned into a situation where it took us several months and endless contacts to Roger Tie, President and Pan Tei Boon, Conference Manager to get the payments we’d been promised. We soon discovered we weren’t the only ones who’d had a hard time collecting appearance fees from UNI Strategic. Several other instructors and facilitators shared their own stories with us about the snail-slow payment and shabby treatment they’d endured from www.unistrategic.com.