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Tech Firms to Fix Monster They Created

Email, IMs keep employees available and distracted

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 14, 2008 11:25 AM CDT

(Newser) – Google, Microsoft, Intel, and IBM are partnering are on a new initiative to help workers distracted by emails and instant messages improve their productivity, the New York Times reports. The Information Overload Research Group, a nonprofit launching next month, will devise cultural and technological solutions...   Read full story »

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