Introduction to Spot of Time

Following the evolution of our technology-related businesses, it is necessary today to change paradigm.

We must learn to work differently, to go against the current in order to counter the harmful effects on productivity and human relations of the communication tools which paradoxically affects productivity.

Spot Of Time (or simply called "SPOT") is a framework of interactions at work who promotes toolsless communications at the office to be better productive, less disturbed, and leave room for human interactions.

It's proven that you will be fully focused on a topic after 25 minutes and each interruptions makes you lose your focus and it will cost you 3 minutes of your time to be well focused again, to achieve your maximum concentration, that we called the "flow".

And it's not all, after that disruption, your percentage of error on your work will be multiplied by a factor of 2.

The time lost due to the interruption of a task is greater than the time of the interruption "(Carlson)

Studies which follows from Carlson's law prove that a worker is interrupted each 12 minutes (by discussions in open spaces, emails, chats, phone calls, internet, smartphones...and Nerf it's just few examples).

Faced with this situation, we thought about disruptive approach in order to bring more value to the hours spent in the office. Also to respond to an observation that the market frameworks focus on solutions to teams but none suggest talking about improving individual work.

So we create Spot Of Time Framework, with the objectives to permit you to carry out a continuous work which will take less time and energy than when it is carried out in several times and promote better human relationships.

With Spot of Time, your work day will be punctuated simply by:

• 4 rounds of 2 hours each

• 5 interactions of 10 minutes called "Spots"

  

This framework approach promote no using communication tools during the rounds (no emails, no chats, no phone...no human interactions) in order to not be disrupt during the work and stay focus on the topics.

To reach this goal, all objects that could disturb your productivity like smatphones or connected watches must be placed in a physical box on your desk named the Round Box.

After each round of 2 hours, the Gamer (the worker is called so) stop working and enters what we called a "spot room".

This 10 minutes meeting permits an interaction with other Gamers in order to organize the next rounds.

Only 3 persons can interact with a Gamer into spot room meetings in order to submit their requests or questions.

The interactions with the Gamer in spot room meetings are limited to 3 minutes by person. If it's required more time to discuss on a topic it will be create a specific task into a next round.