Impact of Disturbance on Performance

The following reasons are help us to ask excuse from our boss, when we did not complete our task.

• Official meetings and appointments

• Telephone calls

• Personal breaks and lunch breaks

• Official visitors

• A need to interrupt current activity to make a copy of something, sends a fax, or coordinates with another worker

• Fire drills, hazard alarms, or other emergencies

• Adverse weather

• Power outages

• Equipment breakdowns

• Holds for quality checks or coordination

• Absentees whose work must be absorbed by others

• Turnover of key personnel-new ones must be brought up to speed

• Higher headquarters or outside agency inspections, audits, and reviews

• Secretaries/clerks delivering mail and messages

• Noise and conversations from adjacent work areas

• Unusual activity outside office windows

• Running out of something-paper, staples, etc.

• Misplacing something; and

• Forgetting something

Certain actions or policies may minimize the disruption and time loss effect of some of the above items, but the potential is not significant.