ABSTRACT
In the present era, everyone is connected with digital devices in their workplaces. Individuals from all facets of life, including employees, are interconnected through their digital devices. The use of new technology increases workers’ efficiency and output, but at the same time, technology can interrupt their productivity. Likewise, interruptions in work environments include emails, social networking site (SNS) notifications, and colleagues. Individuals become unstable and fail to meet standards and are incapable of monitoring their actions when lack of self-regulation occurs. Mindfulness facilitates self-regulation of sustained attention and non-elaborative processing.
This chapter focuses on employees’ use of social networking sites during office hours. Employees’ face interruptions by using social networking sites during office hours. This type of interruption affects the employee’s job performance and wellbeing. In this scenario mindfulness plays an important role to mitigate the interruptions caused by social network use. Self-regulation perspective is used to understand the role of mindfulness as an affective technique to solve this issue. In the end, an experiment is discussed to relate the role of mindfulness as an intervention to deal with these interruptions. A quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test research design was used by focusing on self-regulation perspective. “Mindfulness” was used as an intervention to mitigate the interruptions caused by SNSs. It was concluded that mindfulness meditation is helpful to reduce the distractions and interruption effects in employees. Employers and organizations need to consider this intervention plan to increase employees’ job performance.
