Diagram: the interruption tax
Use interruption-cost data to explain why protecting focus blocks is a performance boundary, not a personality preference.
Use the interruption data to decide what a focus boundary is protecting. Interruption tax in office work, rated on a 1 to 20 workload scale Stress with no interruption Baseline condition in Mark, Gudith, and Klocke 6.92 Stress with same-context interruption Interruption related to the current work 9.46 Stress with different-context interruption Interruption unrelated to the current work 9.13 Time pressure with same-context interruption Highest value shown in this diagram 12.69 Effort with different-context interruption Extra push required after interruption 11.52 Baseline
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