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information overload
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information overload

Problem of workers being deluged under a flood of information that impairs their ability to perform their job. Technological advances, such as e-mail, the Internet, and the mobile phone, have exacerbated the situation. The problem of information overload should not be underestimated because it can cause workplace stress. Likely solutions include delegation to subordinates and learning to recognize the optimum amount of information required to make a decision.



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And now, it seems, the various forms of information pollution, too, have proliferated.
Now glowing before us each morning on our computer monitors is the unpleasant industrial by-product of our age: information pollution, cybersludge clogging our global information flows and our minds with useless, pointless, even malicious data at a cost to the information industry that can be measured as surely as the grounding of an oil-tanker or water contamination from a chemical plant.
 
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